# 仆

| 仆 | U+4EC6, &#20166; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC6 |
| ← 仅 [U+4EC5] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 仇 → [U+4EC7] |

## Translingual

| Japanese | 仆/僕 |
| Simplified | 仆/仆 |
| Traditional | 仆/僕 |

### Han character

仆 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人卜 (OY), four-corner 2320$_0$, composition ⿰亻卜)

#### Derived characters

* 𢪗, 𱥸, 𥾾, 𱐸, 𦬙, 䇚, 𨳢

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 91, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 354
* Dae Jaweon: page 193, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 108, character 3
* Unihan data for U+4EC6

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 仆
* Small seal scripts05870
* References:
* Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:
* Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
* Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
* Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
* Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
| | 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 *pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ) : semantic 人 + phonetic 卜 (OC *poːɡ).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pū, fù (pu$^1$, fu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨ, ㄈㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fu$^6$ / puk$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phuk
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): porh$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phak
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$pheu
* 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/
** (Standard Chinese, variant)
*** 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: fu$^6$ / puk$^1$
*** Yale: fuh / pūk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fu$^6$ / puk$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fu$^6$ / pug$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /fuː²²/, /pʰʊk̚⁵/
* fu6 - literary;
* puk1 - colloquial.
* Middle Chinese: phjuH, phjuwH, phuwH, bok
Rime :
| Character | 仆 | 仆 | 仆 | 仆 |
| Reading # | 1/4 | 2/4 | 3/4 | 4/4 |
| Initial (聲) | 滂 (2) | 滂 (2) | 滂 (2) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 尤 (136) | 侯 (137) | 德 (131) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III | I | I |
| Fanqie | 芳遇切 | 敷救切 | 匹候切 | 蒲北切 |
| Baxter | phjuH | phjuwH | phuwH | bok |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pʰɨo$^H$/ | /pʰɨu$^H$/ | /pʰəu$^H$/ | /bək̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pʰio$^H$/ | /pʰiu$^H$/ | /pʰəu$^H$/ | /bək̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pʰio$^H$/ | /pʰiəu$^H$/ | /pʰəu$^H$/ | /bək̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pʰuə̆$^H$/ | /pʰuw$^H$/ | /pʰəw$^H$/ | /bək̚/ |
| Li Rong | /pʰio$^H$/ | /pʰiu$^H$/ | /pʰu$^H$/ | /bək̚/ |
| Wang Li | /pʰĭu$^H$/ | /pʰĭəu$^H$/ | /pʰəu$^H$/ | /bək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /pʰi̯u$^H$/ | /pʰi̯ə̯u$^H$/ | /pʰə̯u$^H$/ | /bʱək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fù | fòu | pòu | bó |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fu$^3$ | fau$^3$ | pau$^3$ | bak$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)ok-s/, /*pʰok-s/, /*pʰˤ(r)ok-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*pʰoːɡs/, /*pʰus/, /*pʰoɡs/, /*bɯːɡ/, /*pʰoːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 仆 | 仆 | 仆 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | pū | pū | pū |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ phju$^H$ › | ‹ phjuw$^H$ › | ‹ phuw$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*pʰ(r)ok-s/ | /*pʰok-s/ | /*pʰˁ(r)ok-s/ |
| English | fall prostrate | fall prostrate | fall prostrate |
| 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 | 仆 | 仆 | 仆 | 仆 | 仆 |
| Reading # | 1/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 5/5 |
| No. | 990 | 991 | 994 | 997 | 1002 |
| Phonetic component | 卜 | 卜 | 卜 | 卜 | 卜 |
| Rime group | 候 | 幽 | 竇 | 職 | 屋 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 仆 | 副 | 赴 | 菔 | 扑 |
| Old Chinese | /*pʰoːɡs/ | /*pʰus/ | /*pʰoɡs/ | /*bɯːɡ/ | /*pʰoːɡ/ |

#### Definitions

仆
* to fall forward
* to lie prostrate; prone

#### Compounds

* 一仆一碌
* 仆地 (pūde)
* 仆然
* 仆街
* 偃仆
* 僵仆
* 前仆後繼／前仆后继 (qiánpūhòujì)
* 前仆後起
* 屢仆屢起／屡仆屡起
* 攧攧仆仆
* 此仆彼起
* 顛仆

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 仆 – see 僕 (“servant; slave; I; me; your humble servant; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 僕).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “仆”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 179.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: ふ (fu)、ぼく (boku)
* Kan-on: ふ (fu)、ほく (hoku)
* Kun: たおれる (taoreru, 仆れる)

## Korean
### Hanja

仆 (eum 부 (bu))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

仆: Hán Nôm readings: bộc, phó
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