# 爆

| 爆 | U+7206, &#29190; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7206 |
| ← 爅 [U+7205] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 爇 → [U+7207] |

## Translingual
### Han character

爆 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火日廿水 (FATE), four-corner 9683$_2$, composition ⿰火暴)
* crackle, pop, burst, explode, bomb

#### Related characters

* 曝

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 686, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19540
* Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2245, character 11
* Unihan data for U+7206

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 爆
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 暴 | *boːwɢs, *boːɡ |
| 曝 | *boːwɢs, *boːɡ |
| 瀑 | *boːwɢs, *boːɡ |
| 虣 | *boːwɢs |
| 爆 | *proːwɢs, *poːwɢ, *proːwɢ |
| 襮 | *poːwɢ, *poːwɢ |
| 嚗 | *proːwɢ |
| 謈 | *pʰroːwɢ, *broːwɢ |
| 犦 | *broːwɢ, *poːwɢ |
| 懪 | *broːwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *proːwɢs, *poːwɢ, *proːwɢ) : semantic 火 + phonetic 暴 (OC *boːwɢs, *boːɡ). However, the phonetic component originally meant "violence", hence it could add part of the meaning. A conservative variant is 𤒺; later it was stylized into 爆.

### Etymology

Cognate with Burmese ပေါက် (pauk, “to explode, to burst”).

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bào (bao$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): baau$^3$ / paau$^3$ / bok$^3$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): pau / phau
    (Hailu, HRS): bau$^ˇ$ / pau$^ˇ$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): po̍k / pho̍k
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bao$^6$ / pag$^8$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$bau
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bào
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bào
*** Wade–Giles: pao$^4$
*** Yale: bàu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baw
*** Palladius: бао (bao)
*** Sinological IPA : /pɑʊ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: baau$^3$ / paau$^3$ / bok$^3$
*** Yale: baau / paau / bok
*** Cantonese Pinyin: baau$^3$ / paau$^3$ / bok$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bao$^3$ / pao$^3$ / bog$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /paːu̯³³/, /pʰaːu̯³³/, /pɔːk̚³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pau / phau
*** Hakka Romanization System: bau / pau
*** Hagfa Pinyim: bau$^4$ / pau$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /pau̯⁵⁵/, /pʰau̯⁵⁵/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: bau$^ˇ$ / pau$^ˇ$
*** Sinological IPA: /pau¹¹/, /pʰau¹¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po̍k
*** Tâi-lô: po̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pok
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pɔk̚⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔk̚²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔk̚¹²¹/
** (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho̍k
*** Tâi-lô: pho̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: phok
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰɔk̚⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: bao$^6$ / pag$^8$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pău / pha̍k
*** Sinological IPA : /pau³⁵/, /pʰak̚⁴/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$bau
*** MiniDict: bau$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$bau
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bɔ²³/
* Middle Chinese: paewH
Rime :
| Character | 爆 |
| Reading # | 1/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 肴 (90) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 北敎切 |
| Baxter | paewH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pˠau$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pᵚau$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pau$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /paɨw$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /pau$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /pau$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pau$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bào |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | baau$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤrawk-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*proːwɢs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 爆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bào |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pæw$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*pˁrawk-s/ |
| English | explode (not pre-Qín) |
| 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 | 爆 |
| Reading # | 1/3 |
| No. | 334 |
| Phonetic component | 暴 |
| Rime group | 貌 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 豹 |
| Old Chinese | /*proːwɢs/ |

#### Definitions

爆
* to burst; to explode; to crackle (from fire)
* (cooking)to quick fry; to quick boil
* (colloquial) full; filled to capacity; exceeding the limit
       ji$^5$ ging$^1$ baau$^3$ zo$^2$ jyu$^6$ syun$^3$. [Jyutping]
       The budget has been used fully.
    間房爆棚。／间房爆棚。 [Cantonese] ― gaan$^1$ fong$^{4-2}$ baau$^3$ paang$^4$. [Jyutping] ― The room is full.
* (Cantonese, colloquial) extremely; intensively; explosively
       ngo$^5$ ji$^4$ gaa$^1$ mong$^4$ dou$^3$ baau$^3$ ! [Jyutping]
       I'm extremely busy now!
* to expose; to reveal
    爆料 [Cantonese] ― baau$^3$ liu$^{6-2}$ [Jyutping] ― to debunk; to expose
* (Cantonese) shocking; startling
* (Internet slang) Used in live streams to indicate that the current topic is controversial or shocking, and may cause the stream to be taken down.

#### Compounds

* 冷灰爆豆
* 地下核爆
* 塞爆音
* 塵爆 / 尘爆
* 大爆滿 / 大爆满
* 導爆索 / 导爆索
* 引爆 (yǐnbào)
* 放爆竹
* 核子試爆 / 核子试爆
* 核爆 (hébào)
* 栗爆
* 氣爆 / 气爆
* 氣爆彈 / 气爆弹
* 氫爆 / 氢爆
* 火爆 (huǒbào)
* 爆仗 (bàozhàng)
* 爆冷 (bàolěng)
* 爆出 (bàochū)
* 爆彈 / 爆弹 (bàodàn)
* 爆料 (bàoliào)
* 爆棚 (bàopéng)
* 爆款 (bàokuǎn)
* 爆滿 / 爆满 (bàomǎn)
* 爆炭
* 爆炸 (bàozhà)
* 爆燥
* 爆燥如雷
* 爆發 / 爆发 (bàofā)
* 爆破 (bàopò)
* 爆破小組 / 爆破小组
* 爆破筒 (bàopòtǒng)
* 爆穀 / 爆谷 (bàogǔ)
* 爆竹 (bàozhú)
* 爆竿
* 爆笑 (bàoxiào)
* 爆米花 (bàomǐhuā)
* 爆紅 / 爆红 (bàohóng, “to go viral (rapid sharing)”)
* 爆肝
* 爆肚 (bàodǔ)
* 爆肚兒 / 爆肚儿 (bàodǔr)
* 爆胎 (bàotāi)
* 爆裂 (bàoliè)
* 爆軚 / 爆𮷗 (bàotāi)
* 爆震
* 篤爆 / 笃爆
* 耗爆
* 起爆
* 踢爆
* 音爆
* 高爆彈 / 高爆弹

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bó (bo$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bok$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bó
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bó
*** Wade–Giles: po$^2$
*** Yale: bwó
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
*** Palladius: бо (bo)
*** Sinological IPA : /pu̯ɔ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bok$^3$
*** Yale: bok
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bok$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bog$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɔːk̚³/
* Middle Chinese: paewk, pak
Rime :
| Character | 爆 | 爆 |
| Reading # | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 覺 (10) | 鐸 (104) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Closed |
| Division (等) | II | I |
| Fanqie | 北角切 | 補各切 |
| Baxter | paewk | pak |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pˠʌk̚/ | /pwɑk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pᵚɔk̚/ | /pʷɑk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pɔk̚/ | /puɑk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /paɨwk̚/ | /pwak̚/ |
| Li Rong | /pɔk̚/ | /puɑk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /pɔk̚/ | /puɑk̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pɔk̚/ | /pwɑk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bo | bo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bok$^3$ | bok$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*poːwɢ/, /*proːwɢ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 爆 | 爆 |
| Reading # | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 335 | 337 |
| Phonetic component | 暴 | 暴 |
| Rime group | 藥 | 藥 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 博 | 剥 |
| Old Chinese | /*poːwɢ/ | /*proːwɢ/ |

#### Definitions

爆
* Only used in 爆爍／爆烁.

### Pronunciation 3

* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pok
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pok
*** Tâi-lô: pok
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pog
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔk̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔk̚³²/

#### Definitions

爆
* (Hokkien) to heat up and have it release oil or have it burst while dry frying (of some fruits, etc.)
* (Hokkien) to rupture and sprout due to burns, bumps, etc.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* bomb
* explode, burst open

#### Readings

* Go-on: ひょう (hyō)、ほく (hoku)
* Kan-on: はく (haku)、ほう (hō)
* Kan’yō-on: ばく (baku, Jōyō)
* Kun: はず (hazu, 爆ず)、はぜる (hazeru, 爆ぜる)

#### Compounds

* 爆発(ばくはつ) (bakuhatsu): explosion
* 爆(ばく)発(はつ)的(てき) (bakuhatsuteki): explosive
* 爆薬(ばくやく) (bakuyaku): gunpowder
* 空爆(くうばく) (kūbaku): air raid
* 爆弾(ばくだん) (bakudan): a bomb
* 水爆(すいばく) (suibaku): hydrogen bomb
* 原爆(げんばく) (genbaku): atomic bomb, nuclear bomb
* 原(げん)水(すい)爆(ばく) (gensuibaku): atomic and hydrogen bombs, nuclear weapons in general
* 被(ひ)爆(ばく) (hibaku): being bombed
* 爆殺(ばくさつ) (bakusatsu): killing by bombing
* 爆死(ばくし) (bakushi): death by explosion
* 爆乳(ばくにゅう) (bakunyū): extremely large breasts
* 爆走(ばくそう) (bakusō): explosively loud and fast driving (of a car or motorbike)
* 自(じ)爆(ばく) (jibaku): suicide bombing; deliberately crashing or exploding one's vehicle

## Korean
### Etymology 1

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading. The original reading is 포 (po) based on Middle Chinese 爆 (MC paewH).
* Recorded as Middle Korean 보ᇢ〮 (Yale: pwów) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [pʰo̞k̚]
* Phonetic hangul: [폭]

#### Hanja

Wikisource 爆 (eumhun 터질 폭 (teojil pok))
* hanja form of 폭 (“to explode”)

#### Compounds

* 수소폭탄 (水素爆彈, susopoktan)
* 시한폭탄 (時限爆彈, sihanpoktan)
* 원자폭탄 (原子爆彈, wonjapoktan)
* 자폭 (自爆, japok)
* 폭격 (爆擊, pokgyeok)
* 폭발 (爆發, pokbal)
* 폭사 (爆死, poksa)
* 폭살 (爆殺, poksal)
* 폭소 (爆笑, pokso)
* 폭음 (爆音, pogeum)
* 폭죽 (爆竹, pokjuk)
* 폭탄 (爆彈, poktan)
* 폭파 (爆破, pokpa)
* 폭풍 (爆風, pokpung)
* 피폭 (被爆, pipok)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese 爆 (MC paewk|pak).
* Recorded as Middle Korean 박〮 (Yale: pák) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

#### Hanja

爆 (eumhun 지질 박 (jijil bak))
* (literary) hanja form of 박 (“to sear; scorch”)

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

爆: Hán Nôm readings: bạo, bạc, bộc
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