檗

See also: 蘗

檗 U+6A97, 檗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A97 ← 檖 [U+6A96] CJK Unified Ideographs 檘 → [U+6A98]

Translingual

Han character

檗 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十木 (SJD), four-corner 7090₄, composition ⿱辟木(GJK) or ⿱辟𣎳(HT))

Derived characters

• 𢹐, 蘗

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 557, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15669
• Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1306, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6A97

Chinese

trad.		檗
simp. #		檗
alternative forms		檘

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	*beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	*breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟	*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦	*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *preːɡ) : phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 木 (“tree”).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bò (bo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak³ / paak³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bò
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bò
    • Wade–Giles: po⁴
    • Yale: bwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: boh
    • Palladius: бо (bo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baak³ / paak³
    • Yale: baak / paak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁸ / paak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag³ / pag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚³/, /pʰaːk̚³/

Note:

• baak3 - colloquial;
• paak3 - variant.

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• Middle Chinese: peak

Rime
Character	檗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	麥 (119)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	博厄切
Baxter	peak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/pɛk̚/
Wang Li	/pæk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bak1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*preːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	檗
Reading #	1/1
No.	668
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	檗
Old Chinese	/*preːɡ/

Definitions

檗

1. (alt. form 蘗, 柏) Used in 黃檗／黄檗 (huángbò, “type of herb used in traditional Chinese medicine”).

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/

Definitions

檗

1. ^‡ wooden tray

   Synonym: 槃 (pán)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01863
• “檗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

檗

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ばく (baku)、ひゃく (hyaku)、びゃく (byaku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku)、ばく (baku)、へき (heki)
• Kun: きはだ (kihada)、きわだ (kiwada)

Compounds

• 黄檗(キハダ) (kihada): Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense)

Korean

Hanja

檗 • (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

檗: Hán Nôm readings: bá

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References

• Nom Foundation