浦

浦 U+6D66, 浦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D66 ← 浥 [U+6D65] CJK Unified Ideographs 浧 → [U+6D67]

Translingual

Han character

浦 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 水戈十月 (EIJB), four-corner 3312₇, composition ⿰氵甫)

Derived characters

• 𬼱, 𡏋, 㜑, 𥂈, 𧗉, 𪬬, 𣿀, 𣹷, 𪷫, 蒲, 䈬, 𮦫, 𦻈

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 624, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17475
• Dae Jaweon: page 1021, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1619, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6D66

Chinese

simp. and trad.		浦
2nd round simp.		𣱶

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 浦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (甫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
豧	*pʰoːs, *pʰa, *pʰas
縛	*baːɡs, *baɡ
逋	*paː
餔	*paː, *baːs
晡	*paː
庯	*paː
陠	*paː, *pʰaː
鵏	*paː, *baːs
峬	*paː
誧	*paː, *pʰaː, *pʰaːʔ, *pʰaːs
秿	*paː, *pʰa, *baʔ
鯆	*paː, *pʰaː, *paʔ
補	*paːʔ
圃	*paːʔ, *paːs
鋪	*pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa
痡	*pʰaː, *pʰa
浦	*pʰaːʔ
烳	*pʰaːʔ
溥	*pʰaːʔ, *paːɡ
悑	*pʰaːs
酺	*baː
匍	*baː
蜅	*baː, *paʔ
脯	*baː, *paʔ
葡	*baː
蒱	*baː
蒲	*baː
簿	*baːʔ, *baːɡ
捕	*baːs
哺	*baːs
簠	*pa, *paʔ, *pʰas
甫	*paʔ
黼	*paʔ
莆	*paʔ
俌	*paʔ, *pʰaʔ
郙	*paʔ, *pʰa
傅	*paɡs
搏	*paɡs, *paːɡ, *pʰaːɡ
麱	*pʰa
尃	*pʰa
榑	*ba
輔	*baʔ
鬴	*baʔ
賻	*baɡs
博	*paːɡ
髆	*paːɡ
鎛	*paːɡ
猼	*paːɡ
餺	*paːɡ
簙	*paːɡ
鑮	*paːɡ, *baːɡ
欂	*paːɡ, *baɡ, *breːɡ
蒪	*pʰaːɡ
膊	*pʰaːɡ
薄	*baːɡ
礡	*baːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰaːʔ): semantic 氵 (“water; river”) + phonetic 甫 (OC *paʔ).

Etymology

Austroasiatic; compare *pʰaʔ > Vietnamese phá (“inlet, cove, lagoon”) (Schuessler, 2007). Indirectly related to Proto-Kam-Sui *pwaŋ⁵ (“bank, shore”) and Saek [script needed] (viaŋꟲ¹, “bank of a river”) by way of *-ʔ ~ *-ŋ alternation (ibid.).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pǔ (pu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pou² / pou⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): pou³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phó͘ / pó͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pou²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵phu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu³
    • Yale: pǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: puu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pou² / pou⁴
    • Yale: póu / pòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pou² / pou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pou² / pou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰou̯³⁵/, /pʰou̯²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: pou³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: pô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔu⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: pou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔu³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Changtai, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó͘
    • Tâi-lô: phóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phor
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɔ⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Changtai): /pʰeu⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /pʰɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pó͘
    • Tâi-lô: póo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: por
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pɔ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pou²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phóu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰou⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵phu
    • MiniDict: phu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²phu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pʰu³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: phuX

Rime
Character	浦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	滂古切
Baxter	phuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰoX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰɔX/
Li Rong	/pʰoX/
Wang Li	/pʰuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pou2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	浦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ phuX ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰˁaʔ/
English	river bank
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	浦
Reading #	1/1
No.	3429
Phonetic component	甫
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	普
Old Chinese	/*pʰaːʔ/

Definitions

浦

1. riverbank; shore
2. river mouth, delta (when extends a river's mouth into deltaic mouth reach)
3. a surname

Compounds

• 利物浦 (Lìwùpǔ)
• 南浦 (nánpǔ)
• 合浦 (Hépǔ)
• 合浦珠還 / 合浦珠还 (hépǔzhūhuán)
• 合浦還珠 / 合浦还珠
• 巫山洛浦
• 幫浦 / 帮浦 (bāngpǔ)
• 木浦 (Mùpǔ)
• 松浦 (Sōngpǔ)
• 洛浦 (Luòpǔ)
• 洛浦宓妃
• 津浦鐵路 / 津浦铁路
• 浦口 (Pǔkǒu)
• 浦東 / 浦东 (Pǔdōng)
• 浦柳
• 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ, “Qingjiangpu”)
• 漳浦 (Zhāngpǔ)
• 澉浦
• 珠還合浦 / 珠还合浦
• 瑤華浦 / 瑶华浦
• 申浦
• 泵浦 (bèngpǔ)
• 還珠合浦 / 还珠合浦
• 霞浦 (Xiápǔ, “Xiapu”)
• 黃浦江 / 黄浦江 (Huángpǔjiāng)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [The Archives of Licheng District, Putian City], editor (2022), “浦”, in 《莆仙方言文读字汇》 [A Character Collection of Literary Readings of the Puxian Topolect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 179.

Japanese

Kanji

浦

(Jōyō kanji)

1. bay, inlet

Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: うら (ura, 浦, Jōyō)
• Nanori: ら (ra)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
浦
うら Grade: S
kun'yomi

Cognate with 裏(うら) (ura).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ɾa̠]
• (Tokyo) うら [ùráꜜ] (Odaka – [2])

Noun

浦(うら) • (ura) ^{←うら (ura)?}

1. bay; inlet

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
浦
うら Grade: S
kun'yomi

Proper noun

浦(うら) • (Ura) 

1. a surname

References

• “浦”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 浦 (MC phuX).

Historical readings
Dongguk Jeongun reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	퐁〯 (Yale: phwǒ)
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
	Gloss (hun)	Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[2]	개〮 (Yale: káy)	보〯 (Yale: pwǒ)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʰo̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [포]

Hanja

浦 (eumhun 개 포 (gae po))

1. hanja form^? of 포 (“estuary; riverbank”)

Compounds

• 군포 (軍浦, Gunpo, “Gunpo”)
• 김포 (金浦, Gimpo, “Gimpo”)
• 마포 (麻浦, Mapo, “Mapo District”)
• 목포 (木浦, Mokpo, “Mokpo”)
• 서귀포 (西歸浦, Seogwipo, “Seogwipo”)
• 영등포 (永登浦, Yeongdeungpo)
• 제물포 (濟物浦, Jemulpo)
• 포구 (浦口, pogu)
• 포항 (浦項, Pohang, “Pohang”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

Vietnamese

Han character

浦: Hán Nôm readings: phố, phổ

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