# 笆

| 笆 | U+7B06, &#31494; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B06 |
| ← 笅 [U+7B05] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 笇 → [U+7B07] |

## Translingual
### Han character

笆 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹日山 (HAU), four-corner 8871$_7$, composition ⿱𥫗巴)
* bamboo fence

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 878, character 13
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25865
* Dae Jaweon: page 1306, character 24
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2952, character 13
* Unihan data for U+7B06

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 巴 | *praː |
| 芭 | *praː |
| 笆 | *praː, *braːʔ |
| 豝 | *praː |
| 鈀 | *praː, *pʰraː |
| 吧 | *praː, *pʰraː |
| 蚆 | *praː, *pʰraː |
| 疤 | *praː |
| 把 | *praːʔ |
| 爸 | *praːs, *baʔ |
| 弝 | *praːs |
| 靶 | *praːs |
| 葩 | *pʰraː |
| 舥 | *pʰraː |
| 妑 | *pʰraː |
| 帊 | *pʰraːs |
| 琶 | *braː |
| 爬 | *braː |
| 杷 | *braː, *braːs, *braːs |
| 跁 | *braːʔ, *braːs |
| 耙 | *braːs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *praː, *braːʔ): semantic 𥫗 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g/s-pʷa (“bamboo”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo rua (“bamboo”), Tibetan སྤ (spa, “cane; bamboo”), Burmese ဝါး (wa:, “bamboo”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bā (ba$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): baa$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pa
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$po
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bā
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ba
*** Wade–Giles: pa$^1$
*** Yale: bā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba
*** Palladius: ба (ba)
*** Sinological IPA : /pä⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: baa$^1$
*** Yale: bā
*** Cantonese Pinyin: baa$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ba$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /paː⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa
*** Tâi-lô: pa
*** Phofsit Daibuun: paf
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pa³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa⁴⁴/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$po
*** MiniDict: po$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$po
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /po⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: pae, baeX
Rime :
| Character | 笆 | 笆 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 麻 (98) | 麻 (98) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | II | II |
| Fanqie | 伯加切 | 傍下切 |
| Baxter | pae | baeX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pˠa/ | /bˠa$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pᵚa/ | /bᵚa$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pa/ | /ba$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /paɨ/ | /baɨ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /pa/ | /ba$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /pa/ | /ba$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pa/ | /bʱa$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bā | bà |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | baa$^1$ | baa$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*praː/, /*braːʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 笆 | 笆 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 99 | 120 |
| Phonetic component | 巴 | 巴 |
| Rime group | 魚 | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 巴 | 跁 |
| Old Chinese | /*praː/ | /*braːʔ/ |

### Definitions

笆
* bamboo fence

#### Compounds

* 一個籬笆三個樁，一個好漢三個幫 / 一个篱笆三个桩，一个好汉三个帮
* 竹籬笆 / 竹篱笆
* 笆壁
* 笆斗 (bādǒu)
* 笆簍 / 笆篓 (bālǒu)
* 笆籬 / 笆篱 (bālí)
* 笆籬子 / 笆篱子 (bālízi)
* 籬笆 / 篱笆
* 籬笆牆 / 篱笆墙
* 羊撞籬笆 / 羊撞篱笆

### References

* “笆”, 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)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: へ (he)
* Kan-on: は (ha)
* Kun: いばらたけ (ibaratake, 笆)、せまい (semai, 笆い)

## Korean
### Hanja

笆 (eum 파 (pa))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

笆: Hán Nôm readings: ba
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