噗

噗 U+5657, 噗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5657 ← 噖 [U+5656] CJK Unified Ideographs 噘 → [U+5658]

Translingual

Han character

噗 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口廿金人 (RTCO), four-corner 6203₅, composition ⿰口菐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 209, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4346
• Dae Jaweon: page 431, character 42
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 682, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5657

Chinese

trad.		噗
simp. #		噗

Glyph origin

Considered a 後起字／后起字 (hòuqǐzì). Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 菐 (pú).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pū (pu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pok³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): porh⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pho̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pū
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pu
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu¹
    • Yale: pū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pu
    • Palladius: пу (pu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pok³
    • Yale: pok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: pog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔːk̚³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: porh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɒʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: porh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɒʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: pho̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɔk̚⁴/

Definitions

噗

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of sudden laughter, outgassing, the release of liquid or gas generally, etc.

Compounds

• 噗哧
• 噗嗤
• 噗嚕嚕／噗噜噜
• 噗的一聲／噗的一声
• 噗碌碌

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “噗”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 179.

Japanese

Kanji

噗

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼく (boku)