# 匐

| 匐 | U+5310, &#21264; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5310 |
| ← 匏 [U+530F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 匑 → [U+5311] |

## Translingual
### Han character

匐 (Kangxi radical 20, 勹+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心一口田 (PMRW), four-corner 2762$_0$, composition ⿹勹畐)

#### Derived characters

* 𫕑 𨄑 蔔

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 151, character 34
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2545
* Dae Jaweon: page 341, character 18
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 260, character 5
* Unihan data for U+5310

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匐 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 富 | *pɯɡs |
| 輻 | *pɯɡs, *pɯɡ |
| 副 | *pʰɯɡs, *pʰrɯɡ, *pʰɯɡ |
| 褔 | *pʰɯɡs |
| 蔔 | *bɯːɡ |
| 匐 | *bɯːɡ, *bɯɡ |
| 逼 | *prɯɡ |
| 偪 | *prɯɡ, *pɯɡ |
| 幅 | *prɯɡ, *pɯɡ |
| 楅 | *prɯɡ, *pɯɡ |
| 湢 | *prɯɡ |
| 堛 | *pʰrɯɡ |
| 愊 | *pʰrɯɡ |
| 踾 | *pʰrɯɡ, *brɯɡ, *pɯɡ |
| 揊 | *pʰrɯɡ |
| 稫 | *pʰrɯɡ |
| 畐 | *pʰrɯɡ, *bɯɡ |
| 疈 | *pʰrɯɡ |
| 腷 | *brɯɡ |
| 鶝 | *brɯɡ, *pɯɡ |
| 福 | *pɯɡ |
| 蝠 | *pɯɡ |
| 葍 | *pɯɡ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fú (fu$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): baak$^6$ / fuk$^6$ / buk$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ho̍k
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** 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: baak$^6$ / fuk$^6$ / buk$^6$
*** Yale: baahk / fuhk / buhk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: baak$^9$ / fuk$^9$ / buk$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bag$^6$ / fug$^6$ / bug$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /paːk̚²/, /fʊk̚²/, /pʊk̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho̍k
*** Tâi-lô: ho̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hok
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚²⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚¹²¹/
* Middle Chinese: bjuwk, bok
Rime :
| Character | 匐 | 匐 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (4) | 德 (131) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 房六切 | 蒲北切 |
| Baxter | bjuwk | bok |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bɨuk̚/ | /bək̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /biuk̚/ | /bək̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /biuk̚/ | /bək̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /buwk̚/ | /bək̚/ |
| Li Rong | /biuk̚/ | /bək̚/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭuk̚/ | /bək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱi̯uk̚/ | /bʱək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fú | bó |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fuk$^6$ | bak$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ək/, /*[b]ˤək/
    (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːɡ/, /*bɯɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 匐 | 匐 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | fú | fú |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bjuwk › | ‹ bok › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b]ək/ | /*[b]ˁək/ (< *[b]ˁuk ?) |
| English | crawl (bu.bjuwk) | crawl |
| 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 | 匐 | 匐 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 3377 | 3406 |
| Phonetic component | 畐 | 畐 |
| Rime group | 職 | 職 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 菔 | 伏 |
| Old Chinese | /*bɯːɡ/ | /*bɯɡ/ |

### Definitions

匐
* Only used in 匍匐 (púfú).

#### Compounds

* 匍匐 (púfú)
* 匍匐之救
* 匍匐前進／匍匐前进
* 匍匐奔喪／匍匐奔丧
* 匍匐莖／匍匐茎
* 壽陵匍匐／寿陵匍匐

### References

* “匐”, 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
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* crawl

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ほく (hoku)、ふく (fuku)、ぼく (boku)
* Kun: はらばう (harabau)

## Korean
### Hanja

匐 • (bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune–Reischauer pok)
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