仆

See also: 僕 and 사

仆 U+4EC6, 仆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC6 ← 仅 [U+4EC5] CJK Unified Ideographs 仇 → [U+4EC7]

Translingual

Japanese	仆/僕
Simplified	仆/仆
Traditional	仆/僕

Han character

Stroke order

仆 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人卜 (OY), four-corner 2320₀, composition ⿰亻卜)

Derived characters

• 𢪗, 𱥸, 𥾾, 𱐸, 𦬙, 䇚, 𨳢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 91, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 354
• Dae Jaweon: page 193, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 108, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4EC6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		仆
alternative forms		扑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仆
Small seal script s05870
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
仆	*pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
赴	*pʰoɡs
訃	*pʰoɡs
朴	*pʰroːɡ
圤	*pʰroːɡ
卜	*poːɡ
鳪	*poːɡ
扑	*pʰoːɡ
攴	*pʰoːɡ, *pʰroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ) : semantic 人 + phonetic 卜 (OC *poːɡ).

Etymology 1

Definitions

仆

1. to fall forward
2. to lie prostrate; prone

Compounds

• 一仆一碌
• 仆地 (pūde)
• 仆然
• 仆街
• 偃仆
• 僵仆
• 前仆後繼／前仆后继 (qiánpūhòujì)
• 前仆後起
• 屢仆屢起／屡仆屡起
• 攧攧仆仆
• 此仆彼起
• 顛仆

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 仆 – see 僕 (“servant; slave; I; me; your humble servant; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 僕).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

仆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ふ (fu); ぼく (boku)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu); ほく (hoku)
• Kun: たおれる (taoreru, 仆れる)

Korean

Hanja

仆 (eum 부 (bu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

仆: Hán Nôm readings: bộc, phó

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