# 埠

| 埠 | U+57E0, &#22496; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57E0 |
| ← 域 [U+57DF] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 埡 → [U+57E1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

埠 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土竹口十 (GHRJ), four-corner 4714$_7$, composition ⿰土阜)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 22
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5161
* Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 30
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 454, character 6
* Unihan data for U+57E0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 阜 | *buʔ |
| 埠 | *baːs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *baːs) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 阜 (OC *buʔ).

### Etymology

A late formation (後起字). Earlier forms of southern Chinese toponyms using the character were often written with the homophone 步 (MC buH) in historical records dated from the Northern Wei to Ming dynasties, which has been conjectured to be a transcription of an earlier Kra-Dai word (Kang, 2010). Cf. 墟 (xū, “market”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bù, fù (bu$^4$, fu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ, ㄈㄨˋ
* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): fau$^6$ / bou$^6$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): feu$^5$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): phu
    (Meixian, Guangdong): fêu$^4$
* Eastern Min (BUC): buô
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): po͘
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bou$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$bu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bù
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bù
*** Wade–Giles: pu$^4$
*** Yale: bù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buh
*** Palladius: бу (bu)
*** Sinological IPA : /pu⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland and Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fù
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fù
*** Wade–Giles: fu$^4$
*** Yale: fù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
*** Palladius: фу (fu)
*** Sinological IPA : /fu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fau$^6$ / bou$^6$
*** Yale: fauh / bouh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fau$^6$ / bou$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: feo$^6$ / bou$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɐu̯²²/, /pou̯²²/
* fau6 - literary;
* bou6 - vernacular.
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*baːs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 埠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3534 |
| Phonetic component | 阜 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 捕 |
| Old Chinese | /*baːs/ |
| Notes | 人步今分別唐字 |

### Definitions

埠
* pier; wharf; dock
* port city
* commercial or trading port
* city; town
    外埠 ― wàibù ― other cities
    埠仔 [Cantonese] ― fau$^6$ zai$^2$ [Jyutping] ― small city; small town

#### Usage notes

* Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciations fù and fǔ.
* Historically used as a suffix for many foreign port cities, such usage is now obsolete and replaced with 市 (shì, “city”).

#### Synonyms

* (pier):
* 埠頭／埠头
* 步頭／步头 (bùtóu)
* 港埠 (gǎngbù)
* 碼頭／码头
* 船埠 (chuánbù)
* 路頭／路头 (Hokkien)
* 輪埠／轮埠 (lúnbù)

#### Compounds

* 下查埠
* 倉埠／仓埠 (Cāngbù)
* 做埠頭／做埠头
* 叻埠 (La̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
* 商埠 (shāngbù)
* 四十埠 (Sìshíbù)
* 圩埠
* 埠河 (Bùhé)
* 埠稅／埠税
* 埠頭／埠头
* 外埠 (wàibù)
* 大埠 (Dàbù)
* 宋埠
* 官埠橋／官埠桥 (Guānbùqiáo)
* 實叻埠／实叻埠 (Si̍t-la̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
* 岷埠 (Bîn-po͘, “Manila”) (Min Nan, dated)
* 市埠
* 本埠 (běnbù)
* 李埠 (Lǐbù)
* 橫埠／横埠 (Héngbù)
* 水埠
* 河埠
* 港埠 (gǎngbù)
* 瓦埠 (Wǎbù)
* 石叻埠 (Sit-la̍t-po͘, “Singapore”) (Min Nan, dated)
* 石埠 (Shíbù)
* 船埠 (chuánbù)
* 草埠湖 (Cǎobùhú)
* 華埠／华埠 (huábù, “Chinatown”)
* 蚌埠
* 通都大埠
* 長江埠／长江埠 (Chángjiāngbù)
* 開埠／开埠 (kāibù)
* 香埠
* 高埠
* 魚埠／鱼埠

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: ぶ (bu)
* Kan-on: ほ (ho)
* Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)
* Kun: つか (tsuka, 埠)、はとば (hatoba, 埠)

## Korean
### Hanja

埠 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

埠: Hán Nôm readings: phụ
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#### References

* Nom Foundation