駁

See also: 駮 and 驳

駁 U+99C1, 駁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99C1 ← 駀 [U+99C0] CJK Unified Ideographs 駂 → [U+99C2]

Translingual

Han character

駁 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸火大大 (SFKK), four-corner 7434₀, composition ⿰馬爻)

Derived characters

• 𫬇, 礟

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1435, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44619
• Dae Jaweon: page 1959, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4544, character 9
• Unihan data for U+99C1

Chinese

trad.		駁
simp.		驳
alternative forms		駮／驳 剝／剥 "to refute; to transport by barge"

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 駁
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
崤	*ɢaːw, *ɢraːw
郩	*qaːwʔ
敎	*kraːw, *kraːws
較	*kreːwɢs, *kreːwɢ
肴	*ɢraːw
淆	*ɢraːw
倄	*ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
爻	*ɢraːw
餚	*ɢraːw
殽	*ɢraːw
笅	*ɢraːw
駁	*praːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *praːwɢ): semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 爻 (OC *ɢraːw). The phonetic component adds part of the meaning if interpreted as "marks".

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk (“piebald”) (Schuessler, 2007, STEDT under PTB *bruk); cognate with Burmese ပြောက် (prauk, “spotted, speckled”), Jingpho prúʔ, Mru preu (“of mixed colors”). Another Chinese cognate may be 斑 (OC *praːn).

豹 (OC *preːwɢs, “leopard”) is its exopassive derivative, literally meaning, “the spotted one”.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The other senses are not obviously connected to the "variegated" sense, in particular, the "rebut" sense (which is the most prevalent sense in Sino-Xenic), though Schuessler makes no mention of them. Do these other senses derive from semantic extensions that originate in compound words which originally invoked the "variegated" sense? For example, 駁船 (OC *praːwɢ ɦljon) would be a "piebald boat" > "barge", and 反駁 (OC *panʔ/pʰan praːwɢ) would be something like "to go against the piebald (mixed)", perhaps evoking semantics which parallel English go against the grain.”

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bó (bo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bok³
• Eastern Min (BUC): báuk
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pok / pak / poh

  (Teochew, Peng'im): boh⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bó
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bó
    • Wade–Giles: po²
    • Yale: bwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
    • Palladius: бо (bo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: bok³
    • Yale: bok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔːk̚³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: báuk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑuʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pok
    • Tâi-lô: pok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pog
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /pɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔk̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pak
    • Tâi-lô: pak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pag
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /pak̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poh
    • Tâi-lô: poh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poiq
    • IPA (Taipei): /poʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɤʔ³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: boh⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: poh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /poʔ²/

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• Middle Chinese: paewk

Rime
Character	駁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	北角切
Baxter	paewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/pɔk̚/
Wang Li	/pɔk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤrawk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*praːwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	駁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bó
Middle Chinese	‹ pæwk ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁrawk/
English	horse of mixed color
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	駁
Reading #	1/1
No.	14653
Phonetic component	爻
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	剥
Old Chinese	/*praːwɢ/

Definitions

駁

1. (of a horse's fur) variegated
2. mixed; heterogenous; impure

   駁雜／驳杂  ―  bózá  ―  multifarious

   • 粹而王，駁而伯，無一焉而亡。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     粹而王，驳而伯，无一焉而亡。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Xunzi, c. 3^rd century BCE

     Cuì ér wàng, bó ér bà, wú yī yān ér wáng. [Pinyin]

     Those who possess its essence shall be elevated King; even its impure application creates a great power; without it, one is doomed to ruin.

3. to refute; to rebut
4. to transport by barge
5. barge; lighter
6. suddenly
7. (Cantonese) to connect
8. alternative form of 駮 / 驳 (bó, “a mythical beast that can eat tigers”)

Compounds

• 反駁 / 反驳 (fǎnbó)
• 回駁 / 回驳
• 彈駁 / 弹驳
• 批駁 / 批驳 (pībó)
• 拖駁 / 拖驳
• 接駁 / 接驳 (jiēbó)
• 斑駁 / 斑驳 (bānbó)
• 斑駁陸離 / 斑驳陆离 (bānbólùlí)
• 班駁 / 班驳 (bānbó)
• 舛駁 / 舛驳
• 蕪駁 / 芜驳
• 貶駁 / 贬驳
• 踳駁 / 踳驳
• 辨駁 / 辨驳
• 辯駁 / 辩驳 (biànbó)
• 陸離斑駁 / 陆离斑驳
• 駁倒 / 驳倒 (bódǎo)
• 駁勘 / 驳勘
• 駁回 / 驳回 (bóhuí)
• 駁岸 / 驳岸 (bó'àn)
• 駁斥 / 驳斥 (bóchì)
• 駁正 / 驳正
• 駁殼槍 / 驳壳枪 (bókéqiāng)
• 駁犖 / 驳荦
• 駁船 / 驳船 (bóchuán)
• 駁落 / 驳落
• 駁詰 / 驳诘
• 駁議 / 驳议 (bóyì)
• 駁辭 / 驳辞
• 駁雜 / 驳杂 (bózá)
• 駁難 / 驳难 (bónàn)
• 駁頭 / 驳头

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 駁

駁

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. variegated
2. mixed, heterogenous
3. refute, disprove

Readings

• Go-on: ばく (baku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku)
• Kun: まだら (madara, 駁)、まざる (mazaru, 駁ざる)、まじる (majiru, 駁じる)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
駁
まだら Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 駁 – see the following entry.

【まだら】 [adjective] variegated [noun] being variegated [noun] spots, speckles Alternative spellings 斑, 駮

(This term, 駁, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
駁
ぶち Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 駁 – see the following entry.

【斑ぶち】S [noun] spots, speckles, patches (particularly in the coat of an animal) Alternative spelling 駮

(This term, 駁, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲駁”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 駁 (MC paewk). Recorded as Early Modern Korean 박 (Yale: pak) in Samun Seonghwi (三韻聲彙 / 삼운성휘), 1751.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pa̠k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [박]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

駁

駁 (eumhun 논박할 박 (nonbakhal bak))

1. hanja form^? of 박 (“to refute; to rebut”)

Compounds

• 갑론을박 (甲論乙駁, gamnoneulbak)
• 공박 (攻駁, gongbak)
• 논박 (論駁, nonbak)
• 면박 (面駁, myeonbak)
• 박론 (駁論, bangnon)
• 박설 (駁說, bakseol)
• 반박 (反駁, banbak)
• 변박 (辯駁/辨駁, byeonbak)
• 통박 (痛駁, tongbak)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

駁: Hán Nôm readings: bác

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