葩

葩 U+8469, 葩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8469 ← 葨 [U+8468] CJK Unified Ideographs 葪 → [U+846A]

Translingual

Han character

葩 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹日山 (THAU), four-corner 4461₇, composition ⿱艹皅)

Derived characters

• 𡀥

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1045, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31441
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3251, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8469

Chinese

trad.		葩
simp. #		葩
alternative forms		皅 苩 䔤 𦺂

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
巴	*praː
芭	*praː
笆	*praː, *braːʔ
豝	*praː
鈀	*praː, *pʰraː
吧	*praː, *pʰraː
蚆	*praː, *pʰraː
疤	*praː
把	*praːʔ
爸	*praːs, *baʔ
弝	*praːs
靶	*praːs
葩	*pʰraː
舥	*pʰraː
妑	*pʰraː
帊	*pʰraːs
琶	*braː
爬	*braː
杷	*braː, *braːs, *braːs
跁	*braːʔ, *braːs
耙	*braːs

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr (“bloom, flower”); compare Burmese ပန်း (pan:) or Zaiwa pan²¹, as well as 疤 (OC *praː, “scar, cicatrix”). Probably the same etymon as 瓣 (OC *breːns, “petal”) (Schusessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): baa¹ / paa¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): ba¹

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): ba¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): bă
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pha

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ba¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baa¹ / paa¹
    • Yale: bā / pā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ / paa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ / pa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵/, /pʰaː⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa³³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pa⁴⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pha
    • Tâi-lô: pha
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phaf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰa³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰa⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ba¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pa
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa³³/

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• Middle Chinese: phae

Rime
Character	葩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	普巴切
Baxter	phae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰaɨ/
Li Rong	/pʰa/
Wang Li	/pʰa/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	paa1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰraː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	葩
Reading #	1/1
No.	109
Phonetic component	巴
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	葩
Old Chinese	/*pʰraː/

Definitions

葩

1. ^† flower

   奇葩  ―  qípā  ―  magnificent flower

2. ^† beautiful
3. (Southern Min) Classifier for lamps.

   一葩電火／一葩电火 [Hokkien]  ―  chi̍t pha tiān-hóe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  a lamp

4. (Southern Min) Classifier for things that are strung together.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 盞 (“(classifier for lamps)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		盞
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	盞
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	盞
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	盞
	Xi'an	盞
	Xining	盞
	Xuzhou	盞
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	盞
	Ürümqi	盞
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	盞
	Wuhan	盞
	Guiyang	盞
	Liuzhou	盞
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	盞
Cantonese	Guangzhou	眼
	Hong Kong	盞, 眼
	Taishan	盞
	Dongguan	盞
Gan	Nanchang	盞
	Pingxiang	盞
Hakka	Meixian	盞
	Yudu	盞
Jin	Taiyuan	盞
	Xinzhou	盞
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	盞
Southern Min	Xiamen	葩, 盞
	Quanzhou	葩
	Zhangzhou	葩
	Tainan	葩
	Longyan	葩
	Datian	葩
	Leizhou	盞
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	盞
Wu	Shanghai	盞
	Shanghai (Chongming)	盞
	Suzhou	盞
	Danyang	盞
	Hangzhou	盞
	Ningbo	盞
	Wenzhou	盞
	Jinhua	盞
Xiang	Changsha	盞
	Loudi	盞

Compounds

• 丹葩
• 含葩
• 奇葩 (qípā)
• 奇葩異卉／奇葩异卉
• 揚葩振藻／扬葩振藻
• 殘葩／残葩
• 瓊葩／琼葩
• 百卉千葩
• 紛葩／纷葩
• 芬葩
• 葩經／葩经 (Pājīng)
• 葩華／葩华

 

References

• “葩”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03532
• “Entry #9975”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji

葩

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha)
• Kun: はな (hana, 葩)

Korean

Hanja

葩 (eum 파 (pa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

葩: Hán Nôm readings: ba

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