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See also: 俣
保 U+4FDD, 保
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FDD
← 俜
[U+4FDC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 俞 →
[U+4FDE]

Translingual

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Han character

保 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人口木 (ORD), four-corner 26294, composition ⿰亻呆)

Derived characters

Additional Derived Characters
  • 𠸒, 𣯂, 𤦸, 𮀮, 𨩚, 𱏘, 𱏙, 𱏟, 𱏛, 𭝱, 𭫄, 𤭭, 𧛱, 𮘧, 𲃄, 𫣯, 𪃁, 𮅡, 𩭼, 𢉣, 𲄅, 𦽻, 𠍙, 𱏇

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 105, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 702
  • Dae Jaweon: page 222, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 160, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+4FDD
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (保) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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In the oracle script, this character was an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 人 (“person”) + 子 (“child”) – a person carrying a child on his back; to carry (a child) > to protect. See also 好.

In early bronze inscriptions, 爪 (“hand”) was added to the person to emphasize that the person was carrying the child. This was later simplified into one or two strokes. The current form has two.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *puʔ (“to carry (on back or shoulders)”). Cognate with 抱 (OC *buːʔ, “to heft, hug”); see there for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • pó͘ - literary (Quanzhou);
  • pó - vernacular (Quanzhou).
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Definitions

保

  1. to raise; to rear
  2. to keep; to maintain
  3. to protect; to safeguard; to defend
    你要保大還是保小？ [MSC, trad.]
    你要保大还是保小？ [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ yào bǎo dà háishì bǎo xiǎo? [Pinyin]
    Do you want to save the mother (“the big one”) or the baby (“the small one”)? (a common line in obstetrics-themed dramas)
  4. to ensure; to guarantee
  5. guarantor
  6. short for 保釋／保释 (bǎoshì, “to bail”)
  7. (historical) bao (a unit of the ancient administrative system, consisting of some 100 households)
  8. a surname, Bao

Synonyms

  • (to raise):
  • (to keep):
  • (to protect):
  • (to ensure):
  • (guarantor):

Compounds

References

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Japanese

Kanji

保

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. protection
  2. guarantee

Readings

  • Go-on: ほう (hō)←はう (fau, historical)
  • Kan-on: ほう (hō)←はう (fau, historical)
  • Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho, Jōyō)
  • Kun: たもつ (tamotsu, 保つ, Jōyō)、やすんじる (yasunjiru, 保んじる)

Compounds

Proper noun

保(たもつ) • (Tamotsu) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

保 (eumhun 지킬 보 (jikil bo))

  1. hanja form? of 보 (“protection”)
  2. hanja form? of 보 (“guarantee”)

Compounds

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Tày

Adjective

保 (bau)

  1. Nôm form of bau (“beautiful”).
    百景眉每式花保
    Pác cảnh mì mọi thức hoa bau
    A hundred different sceneries with all kinds of beautiful flowers
  2. Nôm form of bau (“fast”).
    馬𨃅否保否𲋄流爲痚
    Mạ phjải bấu bau, bấu phong lưu vì héo
    The horse doesn't run fast or nobly beautiful it's skinny

Particle

保 (bấu)

  1. Nôm form of bấu (“not”).
    保聀塘𫠯𪫆宮閣
    Bấu chắc tàng lồng mừa cung các
    I do not know the way back to the palace

References

  • Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
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Vietnamese

Han character

保: Hán Nôm readings: bảo, bầu, bửu

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References

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