# 菠

| 菠 | U+83E0, &#33760; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83E0 |
| ← 菟 [U+83DF] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 菡 → [U+83E1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

菠 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 12 strokes in traditional Chinese, 11 strokes in simplified Chinese and Japanese, cangjie input 廿水木水 (TEDE), four-corner 4414$_7$, composition ⿱艹波)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1038, character 19
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31190
* Dae Jaweon: page 1496, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3240, character 5
* Unihan data for U+83E0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 陂 | *pral, *prals |
| 詖 | *pral, *prals |
| 彼 | *pralʔ |
| 柀 | *pralʔ |
| 佊 | *pralʔ, *prals |
| 貱 | *prals |
| 跛 | *prals, *paːlʔ |
| 披 | *pʰral, *pʰralʔ |
| 鈹 | *pʰral |
| 帔 | *pʰral, *pʰrals |
| 鮍 | *pʰral |
| 耚 | *pʰral |
| 狓 | *pʰral |
| 翍 | *pʰral |
| 旇 | *pʰral, *brals |
| 秛 | *pʰral, *pʰrals |
| 紴 | *pʰralʔ, *paːl |
| 皮 | *bral |
| 疲 | *bral |
| 被 | *bralʔ, *brals |
| 髲 | *brals |
| 鞁 | *brals |
| 骳 | *mbralʔ |
| 波 | *paːl |
| 碆 | *paːl, *baːl |
| 菠 | *paːl |
| 簸 | *paːlʔ, *paːls |
| 駊 | *paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ |
| 頗 | *pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls |
| 坡 | *pʰaːl |
| 玻 | *pʰaːl |
| 破 | *pʰaːls |
| 婆 | *baːl |
| 蔢 | *baːl |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bō (bo$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bo$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): po͘ / po / pe / poe
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bo$^1$ / buê$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$pu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bō
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bo
*** Wade–Giles: po$^1$
*** Yale: bwō
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bo
*** Palladius: бо (bo)
*** Sinological IPA : /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bo$^1$
*** Yale: bō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bo$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bo$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɔː⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po͘
*** Tâi-lô: poo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pof
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ³³/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po
*** Tâi-lô: po
*** Phofsit Daibuun: poy
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɤ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /po³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /po⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe
*** Tâi-lô: pe
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pef
*** IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /pe⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poe
*** Tâi-lô: pue
*** Phofsit Daibuun: poef
*** IPA (Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /pue⁴⁴/
* po͘ - literary (Quanzhou);
* po - literary (Xiamen, Taiwan, Zhangzhou);
* po - vernacular (Quanzhou);
* pe/poe - vernacular.
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*paːl/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 菠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9722 |
| Phonetic component | 皮 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 波 |
| Old Chinese | /*paːl/ |

### Definitions

菠
* Used in compounds.

### Compounds

* 菠菜 (bōcài)
* 菠薐 (bōléng)
* 菠薐菜 (bōléngcài)
* 菠蘿／菠萝 (bōluó)
* 菠蘿蜜／菠萝蜜 (bōluómì)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* spinach

#### Readings

* Go-on: は (ha)
* Kan-on: は (ha)
* Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
* Kun: ほうれんそう (hōrensō)

## Korean
### Hanja

菠 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

菠: Hán Nôm readings: ba
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