幅

幅 U+5E45, 幅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E45 ← 幄 [U+5E44] CJK Unified Ideographs 幆 → [U+5E46]

Translingual

Stroke order

Japan (For Chinese, swap strokes 11 and 10.)

Han character

幅 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中月一口田 (LBMRW), four-corner 4126₆, composition ⿰巾畐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 334, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8995
• Dae Jaweon: page 641, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 746, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5E45

Chinese

simp. and trad.		幅
alternative forms		䋹／䌿 愊 畐 ancient 偪 "leg wrap"

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 幅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
富	*pɯɡs
輻	*pɯɡs, *pɯɡ
副	*pʰɯɡs, *pʰrɯɡ, *pʰɯɡ
褔	*pʰɯɡs
蔔	*bɯːɡ
匐	*bɯːɡ, *bɯɡ
逼	*prɯɡ
偪	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
幅	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
楅	*prɯɡ, *pɯɡ
湢	*prɯɡ
堛	*pʰrɯɡ
愊	*pʰrɯɡ
踾	*pʰrɯɡ, *brɯɡ, *pɯɡ
揊	*pʰrɯɡ
稫	*pʰrɯɡ
畐	*pʰrɯɡ, *bɯɡ
疈	*pʰrɯɡ
腷	*brɯɡ
鶝	*brɯɡ, *pɯɡ
福	*pɯɡ
蝠	*pɯɡ
葍	*pɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *prɯɡ, *pɯɡ): semantic 巾 (“clothing”) + phonetic 畐 (OC *pʰrɯɡ, *bɯɡ).

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): puk
• Eastern Min (BUC): hók
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pak / hok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fúr
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fúr
    • Wade–Giles: fu²-ʼrh
    • Yale: fúr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwul
    • Palladius: фур (fur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuɻʷ³⁵/

Note:

• fúr:
  • width of textiles;
  • classifier.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: fuk¹
    • Yale: fūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: puk
    • Hakka Romanization System: bug^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /puk̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hók
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /houʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pak / hok
    • Tâi-lô: pak / hok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pag, hog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pak̚³²/, /hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pak̚⁵/, /hɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pak̚³²/, /hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pak̚³²/, /hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pak̚³²/, /hɔk̚³²/
Note: pak - vernacular (“classifier for textiles and pictures”), hok - literary.
• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pak̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: pjuwk

Rime
Character	幅
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方六切
Baxter	pjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/piuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puwk̚/
Li Rong	/piuk̚/
Wang Li	/pĭuk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fuk1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	幅
Reading #	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*pək/
English	width (of cloth); wide
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	幅
Reading #	2/2
No.	3396
Phonetic component	畐
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	福
Old Chinese	/*pɯɡ/

Definitions

幅

1. width of textiles
2. (by extension) width

   幅度  ―  fúdù  ―  range; scope; extent

   振幅  ―  zhènfú  ―  amplitude

3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of cloth) hem; margin

   邊幅／边幅  ―  biānfú  ―  cloth margin; (figurative) person's appearance

4. Classifier for textiles and pictures. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   一幅畫／一幅画  ―  yī fú huà  ―  a picture

5. (Cantonese, Hainanese, Nanning Pinghua) Classifier for walls.

Synonyms

• (classifier for walls):

Dialectal synonyms of 堵 (“(classifier for walls)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		堵, 面, 道
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	堵, 面, 道
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	堵
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	堵
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	堵
	Xi'an	堵
	Xining	堵
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	堵
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	堵
	Guiyang	堵
	Liuzhou	堵
Cantonese	Guangzhou	埲, 幅
	Hong Kong	埲, 幅
	Dongguan	條
Gan	Lichuan	扇
	Pingxiang	扇, 敦, 陣
Hakka	Meixian	皮
	Yudu	扇
Huizhou	Jixi	堵, 面, 皮
Jin	Taiyuan	堵
	Xinzhou	堵
Northern Min	Jian'ou	板, 堵
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	堵, 扇
Southern Min	Xiamen	堵
	Quanzhou	堵
	Zhangzhou	堵
	Taipei (Wanhua)	片
	Kaohsiung	面
	Yilan	堵
	Changhua (Lukang)	面
	Taichung	片
	Taichung (Wuqi)	片
	Tainan	堵, 面
	Taitung	片
	Hsinchu	片
	Penghu (Magong)	片
	Jieyang	爿, 埤, 片
	Puning	方, 埤
	Haikou	幅
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	幅
Wu	Shanghai	堵
	Shanghai (Chongming)	堵
	Suzhou	堵
	Danyang	堵
	Hangzhou	堵
	Jinhua	堵
Xiang	Changsha	堵

Compounds

• 不事邊幅 / 不事边幅
• 不修邊幅 / 不修边幅 (bùxiūbiānfú)
• 不脩邊幅 / 不脩边幅
• 修邊幅 / 修边幅
• 修飾邊幅 / 修饰边幅
• 大幅 (dàfú)
• 大幅度 (dàfúdù)
• 寬幅 / 宽幅 (kuānfú)
• 尺幅
• 尺幅千里 (chǐfúqiānlǐ)
• 巨幅 (jùfú)
• 幅員 / 幅员 (fúyuán)
• 幅巾 (fújīn)
• 幅度 (fúdù)
• 幅面
• 振幅 (zhènfú)
• 播幅
• 斷幅殘紙 / 断幅残纸
• 方幅
• 條幅 / 条幅 (tiáofú)
• 橫幅 / 横幅 (héngfú)
• 步幅 (bùfú)
• 波幅 (bōfú)
• 減幅 / 减幅
• 漲幅 / 涨幅 (zhǎngfú)
• 畫幅 / 画幅 (huàfú)
• 篇幅 (piānfú)
• 調幅 / 调幅 (tiáofú)
• 調幅廣播 / 调幅广播
• 跌幅 (diēfú)
• 連篇累幅 / 连篇累幅
• 邊幅 / 边幅 (biānfú)
• 邊幅不修 / 边幅不修
• 降幅 (jiàngfú)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bī (bi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bī
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bi
    • Wade–Giles: pi¹
    • Yale: bī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bi
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pik

Rime
Character	幅
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	彼側切
Baxter	pik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pik̚/
Li Rong	/piək̚/
Wang Li	/pĭək̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*p<r>ək/, /*pək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*prɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	幅	幅
Reading #	1/3	2/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú	fú
Middle Chinese	‹ pik ›	‹ pjuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*p<r>ək/	/*pək/
English	strap around the leg	strap around the leg
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	幅
Reading #	1/2
No.	3380
Phonetic component	畐
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	逼
Old Chinese	/*prɯɡ/

Definitions

幅

1. (historical) leg wrap made of cloth

References

• “幅”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 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), A01179