# 扑

| 扑 | U+6251, &#25169; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6251 |
| ← 扐 [U+6250] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 扒 → [U+6252] |

## Translingual
### Han character

扑 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 手卜 (QY), four-corner 4300$_0$, composition ⿰扌卜)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 417, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11779
* Dae Jaweon: page 763, character 11
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1827, character 2
* Unihan data for U+6251

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | 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 *pʰoːɡ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 卜 (OC *poːɡ).
Officially adopted as the simplified form of 撲 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pū (pu$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pok$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: pū
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄨ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: pu
*** Wade–Giles: pʻu$^1$
*** Yale: pū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pu
*** Palladius: пу (pu)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰu⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pok$^3$
*** Yale: pok
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pok$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pog$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɔːk̚³/
* Middle Chinese: phuwk
Rime :
| Character | 扑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 滂 (2) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (3) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 普木切 |
| Baxter | phuwk |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pʰuk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pʰuk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pʰuk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pʰəwk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /pʰuk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /pʰuk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /pʰuk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | pu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | puk$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*pʰoːɡ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 扑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1000 |
| Phonetic component | 卜 |
| Rime group | 屋 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 扑 |
| Old Chinese | /*pʰoːɡ/ |

#### Definitions

扑
* whip

#### Compounds

* 扑作教刑
* 扑打
* 扑撻
* 擊扑
* 敲扑
* 跌扑
* 鞭扑

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): bok$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bok$^1$
*** Yale: bōk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bok$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bog$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɔːk̚⁵/

#### Definitions

扑
* (Cantonese) to hit; to strike
       jung$^6$ go$^3$ seoi$^2$ zeon$^1$ bok$^1$ jan$^4$ go$^3$ tau$^4$ [Jyutping]
       to hit someone's head with a water bottle
* (Cantonese) to have sex
    扑嘢 [Cantonese] ― bok$^1$ je$^5$ [Jyutping] ― to have sex

##### Compounds

* 扑咪 (bok$^1$ mai$^1$) (Cantonese)
* 扑嘢 (bok$^1$ je$^5$) (Cantonese)
* 扑扑齋 (bok$^1$ bok$^1$ zaai$^1$) (Cantonese)
* 扑槌 (bok$^1$ ceoi$^{4-2}$) (Cantonese)
* 扑濕 (bok$^1$ sap$^1$) (Cantonese)
* 扑頭 (Cantonese)
* 扑頭黨／扑头党 (Cantonese)
* 紅扑扑 (hung$^4$ bok$^1$ bok$^1$) (Cantonese)

### Etymology 3

* For pronunciation and definitions of 扑 – see 撲 (“to beat; to strike; to pat; to slap; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 撲).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### Etymology 4

* For pronunciation and definitions of 扑 – see 仆 (“to fall forward; to lie prostrate; prone”). (This character is a variant form of 仆).

### Etymology 5

* For pronunciation and definitions of 扑 – see 㩧 (“to strike; to beat; the sound of hitting something”). (This character is a variant form of 㩧).

### Etymology 6

* For pronunciation and definitions of 扑 – see 揊. (This character is a variant form of 揊).

### References

* “扑”, 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–
* zi.tools

## Tày
### Noun

扑 (buốc)
* Nôm form of buốc (“catty”).
    保眉帝色排色扑Bấu mì đảy sắc vài sắc buốcI don't have a single handful or catty of something

### Verb

扑 (pốc)
* Nôm form of pốc (“to bury; to hide”).
    𫪄扑捤父𫰤盆Kin pốc vậy, vỏ mẻ buồn[If ] you eat on the sly, your parents will be sad

### References

* Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội