# 沸

| 沸 | U+6CB8, &#27832; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB8 |
| ← 沷 [U+6CB7] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 油 → [U+6CB9] |

## Translingual
### Han character

沸 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水中中弓 (ELLN), four-corner 3512$_7$, composition ⿰氵弗)

#### Derived characters

* 𰝌, 𩰾, 𩱣

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 614, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17251
* Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1597, character 1
* Unihan data for U+6CB8

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鄪 | *prɯds |
| 費 | *prɯds, *pʰɯds, *bɯds |
| 砩 | *pads |
| 沸 | *pɯds |
| 疿 | *pɯds |
| 茀 | *pɯds, *pʰɯd |
| 髴 | *pʰɯds, *pɯd, *pʰɯd |
| 昲 | *pʰɯds |
| 靅 | *pʰɯds |
| 狒 | *buds |
| 怫 | *bɯds, *bɯd |
| 胇 | *brɯd |
| 艴 | *bɯːd, *pʰɯd |
| 弗 | *pɯd |
| 紼 | *pɯd |
| 柫 | *pɯd |
| 笰 | *pɯd |
| 拂 | *pʰɯd |
| 刜 | *pʰɯd, *bɯd |
| 彿 | *pʰɯd |
| 佛 | *bɯd |
| 坲 | *bɯd |
| 咈 | *bɯd |
| 炥 | *bɯd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pɯds) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 弗 (OC *pɯd).

### Etymology

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prut (“to boil”) (STEDT), whence Burmese ပြုတ် (prut, “to boil”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fèi, fú (fei$^4$, fu$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ, ㄈㄨˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fai$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hùi / pùi / hut
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hug$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fèi
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fèi
*** Wade–Giles: fei$^4$
*** Yale: fèi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fey
*** Palladius: фэй (fɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /feɪ̯⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese, variant)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fú
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fú
*** Wade–Giles: fu$^2$
*** Yale: fú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
*** Palladius: фу (fu)
*** Sinological IPA : /fu³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fai$^3$
*** Yale: fai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fai$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fei$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɐi̯³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hùi
*** Tâi-lô: huì
*** Phofsit Daibuun: huix
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hui⁴¹/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hui²¹/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pùi
*** Tâi-lô: puì
*** Phofsit Daibuun: puix
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pui⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pui²¹/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hut
*** Tâi-lô: hut
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hud
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hut̚³²/
* hùi - literary (Quanzhou);
* pùi - vernacular (Quanzhou).
* Middle Chinese: pj+jH
Rime :
| Character | 沸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 微 (21) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 方味切 |
| Baxter | pj+jH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pʉi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pʷɨi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /piuəi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /puj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /piuəi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /pĭwəi$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /pwe̯i$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fèi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fei$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*Nə.p[u][t]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*pɯds/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 沸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | fèi |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pjɨj$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*Nə.p[u][t]-s/ |
| English | boil (v.) |
| 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 | 沸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3301 |
| Phonetic component | 弗 |
| Rime group | 隊 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 沸 |
| Old Chinese | /*pɯds/ |

### Definitions

沸
* to boil; to bubble; to churn
* to surge; to gush
* to be in turmoil; to bustle
* boiling; extremely hot
* noisy

### Compounds

* 人聲鼎沸／人声鼎沸 (rénshēngdǐngfèi)
* 以指撓沸／以指挠沸
* 以湯止沸／以汤止沸
* 以湯沃沸／以汤沃沸
* 共沸物 (gòngfèiwù)
* 四海鼎沸
* 天下鼎沸
* 扇火止沸
* 抽薪止沸
* 揚湯止沸／扬汤止沸 (yángtāngzhǐfèi)
* 救火揚沸／救火扬沸
* 民怨沸騰／民怨沸腾
* 江翻海沸 (jiāngfānhǎifèi)
* 沸反盈天
* 沸水 (fèishuǐ)
* 沸泉 (fèiquán)
* 沸沸
* 沸沸揚揚／沸沸扬扬 (fèifèiyángyáng)
* 沸涫
* 沸湯／沸汤
* 沸渭
* 沸濆／沸𣸣
* 沸然
* 沸熱／沸热
* 沸羹
* 沸騰／沸腾 (fèiténg)
* 沸點／沸点 (fèidiǎn)
* 沸鼎
* 海沸山搖／海沸山摇
* 海沸山裂
* 海沸江翻
* 海沸河翻
* 海沸波翻
* 煮沸 (zhǔfèi)
* 物論沸騰／物论沸腾
* 物議沸騰／物议沸腾
* 百沸湯／百沸汤
* 笙歌鼎沸
* 蜩沸
* 蜩螗沸羹
* 蟲鳴水沸／虫鸣水沸
* 觱沸 (bìfèi)
* 麋沸 (mífèi)
* 麋沸蟻動／麋沸蚁动
* 麋沸蟻聚／麋沸蚁聚
* 麻沸
* 麻沸散
* 鼎沸 (dǐngfèi)
* 鼎沸不絕／鼎沸不绝

### References

* “沸”, 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–

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | ⿰氵厶 |
| Kyūjitai | 沸 |

### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰氵厶)
* seethe
* boil

#### Readings

* Go-on: ひ (hi)
* Kan-on: ひ (hi)
* Kan’yō-on: ふつ (futsu, Jōyō)
* Kun: わく (waku, 沸く, Jōyō)、わかす (wakasu, 沸かす, Jōyō)

#### Derived terms

* 沸(わ)かす (wakasu)

## Korean
### Hanja

沸 • (bi, bul) (hangeul 비, 불, revised bi, bul, McCune–Reischauer pi, pul, Yale pi, pul)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

沸: Hán Nôm readings: phí, phất
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