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Japanese 抱
Simplified 抱
Traditional 抱

抱 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手心口山 (QPRU), four-corner 57012, composition ⿰扌包)

  1. embrace, hold in arms, enfold
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 423, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11917
  • Dae Jaweon: page 771, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1856, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+62B1
simp. and trad.
 抱
Old Chinese
袍 *buː
袌 *buː, *buːs
軳 *buː
抱 *buːʔ
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
菢 *buːs
勹 *pruː
包 *pruː
胞 *pruː, *pʰruː
苞 *pruː
枹 *pruː, *bu, *bu
飽 *pruːʔ
泡 *pʰruː, *m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮 *pʰruːs, *bruː
皰 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
疱 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
跑 *bruː, *bruːɡ
咆 *bruː
庖 *bruː
匏 *bruː
刨 *bruː
狍 *bruː
炰 *bruː
鉋 *bruː, *bruːs
瓟 *bruː, *bruːɡ
颮 *bruː, *pʰruːɡ
鞄 *bruː, *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *pʰruːɡ
鮑 *bruːʔ
骲 *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *bruːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
玸 *bu
雹 *bruːɡ
窇 *bruːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *buːʔ) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː) – hold in one’s hands. Note that 包 has the meaning of “wrap”, hence connotations of “wrap in one’s hands, embrace”, thereby also making it an ideogrammic compound.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bəw (“to carry (on back or shoulders)”). Cognate with 保 (OC *puːʔ, “to protect, rear”), Manipuri ꯄꯨ (poo, “to carry”), Mizo [Term?] (pu, “to carry (on the back / shoulders)”), Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “to carry on the back, add onto”) (STEDT).

Note:

  • bou6 - equivalent to 菢;
  • paau1 - equivalent to 拋.

Note:

  • phǒ͘/phō - literary;
  • phǒ/phǎu/phāu/pǎu/pāu - vernacular;
  • pō - unknown dialect.
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 抱
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bawX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[m-p]ˁuʔ/
English carry in the arms

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 抱
Reading # 1/1
No. 268
Phonetic
component 		勹
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		抱
Old
Chinese 		/*buːʔ/

抱

  1. to heft in the arms; to carry
  2. to hug; to embrace
  3. to incubate
  4. Classifier for things held or encircled with both arms (books, hay, firewood, trees, etc.).
  5. a surname

Dialectal synonyms of 摟 (“to hug; to embrace”) [map]

Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 擁, 摟
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 摟抱, 擁抱
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 摟
Taiwan 摟, 抱
Singapore 擁抱, 抱
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 摟
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 摟
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 抱, 摟
Wuhan 箍, 摟
Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 摟, 抱
Hefei 摟, 抱
Cantonese Guangzhou 攬
Hong Kong 攬
Taishan 攬
Singapore (Guangfu) 攬
Gan Nanchang 攬, 箍
Hakka Meixian 揇
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 揇
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 揇
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 揇
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 揇
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 揇
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 攬
Jin Taiyuan 摟
Northern Min Jian'ou 抱
Eastern Min Fuzhou 兜, 攬
Matsu 攬
Southern Min Xiamen 攬
Quanzhou 攬
Zhangzhou 攬
Taipei 攬
Kaohsiung 攬
Penang (Hokkien) 攬
Singapore (Hokkien) 攬
Manila (Hokkien) 攬
Chaozhou 攬
Wu Shanghai 搿
Suzhou 搿
Wenzhou 搩
Xiang Changsha 箍, 摟
Shuangfeng 傘, 箍
Shinjitai 抱
Kyūjitai
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抱

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. To embrace
  2. To carry, hold or bear
  1. ^ “抱”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

抱 (eumhun 안을 포 (aneul po))

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抱: Hán Nôm readings: bão

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