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See also: 晋
普 U+666E, 普
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-666E
← 晭
[U+666D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 景 →
[U+666F]

Translingual

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Han character

普 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金日 (TCA), four-corner 80601, composition ⿱並日)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 496, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13982
  • Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1521, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+666E
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 普, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (普) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 並 + 日 (“sun”).

Etymology

“wide; universal”
Related to 溥 (OC *pʰaːʔ).
“man”
Borrowed from Tibetan པོ (po).

Pronunciation

Note: phú/puˊ - in 普普仔.
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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

普

  1. (obsolete, of sun) lustreless
  2. universal; general; widespread
  3. wide; vast
  4. (obsolete, Tibet) adult man
  5. short for 普通話／普通话 (pǔtōnghuà, “Putonghua”)
    推普  ―  tuīpǔ  ―  to promote Putonghua
    普教中  ―  pǔjiàozhōng  ―  using Putonghua as the medium of instruction for teaching the Chinese Language Subject
  6. Used in transcription.
    普吉  ―  Pǔjí  ―  Phukhet
    聖多美和普林西比 [MSC, trad.]
    圣多美和普林西比 [MSC, simp.]
    Shèngduōměi hé Pǔlínxībǐ [Pinyin]
    São Tomé and Principe
    當勞·特朗普／当劳·特朗普  ―  Dāngláo Tèlǎngpǔ  ―  Donald Trump
    1. short for 普魯士／普鲁士 (Pǔlǔshì):
    2. (chiefly historical) Prussia (a geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe)
    3. (historical) Prussia (a former duchy, kingdom and (after German unification in 1871) a province of Germany, existing from 1525 to 1947 in parts of modern Germany, Poland and Russia)
      普奧戰爭／普奥战争  ―  Pǔ-Ào Zhànzhēng  ―  Austro-Prussian War
    4. short for 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěrchá, “pu'er tea”)
      菊普  ―  júpǔ  ―  chrysanthemum and pu'er tea
      熟普  ―  shúpǔ  ―  fermented pu'er
  7. a surname

Compounds

References

  • “普”, 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–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “普”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 134.
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Japanese

Kanji

普

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. general; universal

Readings

  • Go-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ほ (ho)
  • Kun: あまねし (amaneshi, 普し)、あまねく (amaneku, 普く)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

普 (eumhun 넓을 보 (neolbeul bo))

  1. hanja form? of 보 (“universal, general, widespread”)

Vietnamese

Han character

普: Hán Nôm readings: phổ, phơ

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