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Translingual
Han character
庖 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈心口山 (IPRU), four-corner 00212, composition ⿸广包)
Derived characters
- 𩎾, 𠝇
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 344, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9266
- Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 31
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 879, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5E96
Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bruː): semantic 广 (“house”) + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: páo
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄠˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: páo
- Wade–Giles: pʻao2
- Yale: páu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: paur
- Palladius: пао (pao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: paau4
- Yale: pàauh
- Cantonese Pinyin: paau4
- Guangdong Romanization: pao4
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaːu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: baew
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*bruː/
Definitions
庖
- (literary) kitchen
- 庖有肥肉，廄有肥馬，民有飢色，野有餓莩，此率獸而食人也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
- Páo yǒu féi ròu, jiù yǒu féi mǎ, mín yǒu jī sè, yě yǒu èpiǎo, cǐ shuài shòu ér shí rén yě. [Pinyin]
- In your kitchen there is fat meat; in your stables there are fat horses. But your people have the look of hunger, and on the wilds there are those who have died of famine. This is leading on beasts to devour men.
庖有肥肉，厩有肥马，民有饥色，野有饿莩，此率兽而食人也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) chef; cook
- 良庖歲更刀，割也；族庖月更刀，折也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE
- Liáng páo suì gēng dāo, gē yě; zú páo yuè gēng dāo, zhé yě. [Pinyin]
- A good cook changes his knife every year; (it may have been injured) in cutting - an ordinary cook changes his every month - (it may have been) broken.
良庖岁更刀，割也；族庖月更刀，折也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
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