# 頗

| 頗 | U+9817, &#38935; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9817 |
| ← 頖 [U+9816] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 領 → [U+9818] |

## Translingual
### Han character

頗 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+5, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木水一月金 (DEMBC), four-corner 4128$_6$, composition ⿰皮頁)

#### Derived characters

* 𡂄, 𭗣, 𢷧, 𤀪(𬈱), 櫇, 𭺌, 𬖾, 𨆵, 𠠉, 𡽠

#### Related characters

* 颇 (Simplified Chinese)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1402, character 18
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43415
* Dae Jaweon: page 1919, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4366, character 10
* Unihan data for U+9817

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 陂 | *pral, *prals |
| 詖 | *pral, *prals |
| 彼 | *pralʔ |
| 柀 | *pralʔ |
| 佊 | *pralʔ, *prals |
| 貱 | *prals |
| 跛 | *prals, *paːlʔ |
| 披 | *pʰral, *pʰralʔ |
| 鈹 | *pʰral |
| 帔 | *pʰral, *pʰrals |
| 鮍 | *pʰral |
| 耚 | *pʰral |
| 狓 | *pʰral |
| 翍 | *pʰral |
| 旇 | *pʰral, *brals |
| 秛 | *pʰral, *pʰrals |
| 紴 | *pʰralʔ, *paːl |
| 皮 | *bral |
| 疲 | *bral |
| 被 | *bralʔ, *brals |
| 髲 | *brals |
| 鞁 | *brals |
| 骳 | *mbralʔ |
| 波 | *paːl |
| 碆 | *paːl, *baːl |
| 菠 | *paːl |
| 簸 | *paːlʔ, *paːls |
| 駊 | *paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ |
| 頗 | *pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls |
| 坡 | *pʰaːl |
| 玻 | *pʰaːl |
| 破 | *pʰaːls |
| 婆 | *baːl |
| 蔢 | *baːl |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls): phonetic 皮 (OC *bral) + semantic 頁.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pō, pǒ
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄛ, ㄆㄛˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): po$^2$ / po$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): puō / pō̤
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): por$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pho / phó͘ / phó / phò
    (Teochew, Peng'im): puan$^2$ / po$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: pō
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄛ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: po
*** Wade–Giles: pʻo$^1$
*** Yale: pwō
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: po
*** Palladius: по (po)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: pǒ
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: pǒ
*** Wade–Giles: pʻo$^3$
*** Yale: pwǒ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: poo
*** Palladius: по (po)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: po$^2$ / po$^1$
*** Yale: pó / pō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: po$^2$ / po$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: po$^2$ / po$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɔː³⁵/, /pʰɔː⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: puō / pō̤
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰuo³³/, /pʰo³³/
* puō - vernacular (“about, almost”);
* pō̤ - literary.
* Middle Chinese: pha, phaX, phaH
Rime :
| Character | 頗 | 頗 | 頗 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 滂 (2) | 滂 (2) | 滂 (2) |
| Final (韻) | 戈 (95) | 戈 (95) | 戈 (95) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | I | I |
| Fanqie | 滂禾切 | 普火切 | 普過切 |
| Baxter | pha | phaX | phaH |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pʰuɑ/ | /pʰuɑ$^X$/ | /pʰuɑ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pʰuɑ/ | /pʰuɑ$^X$/ | /pʰuɑ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pʰuɑ/ | /pʰuɑ$^X$/ | /pʰuɑ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pʰwa/ | /pʰwa$^X$/ | /pʰwa$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /pʰuɑ/ | /pʰuɑ$^X$/ | /pʰuɑ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /pʰuɑ/ | /pʰuɑ$^X$/ | /pʰuɑ$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pʰuɑ/ | /pʰuɑ$^X$/ | /pʰuɑ$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | pō | pǒ | pò |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | po$^1$ | po$^2$ | po$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰˤa[j]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːl/, /*pʰaːlʔ/, /*pʰaːls/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 頗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | pō |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pha › |
| Old Chinese | /*pʰˁa[j]/ |
| English | slanting, oblique |
| 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 | 頗 | 頗 | 頗 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 9727 | 9730 | 9733 |
| Phonetic component | 皮 | 皮 | 皮 |
| Rime group | 歌 | 歌 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 頗 | 叵 | 破 |
| Old Chinese | /*pʰaːl/ | /*pʰaːlʔ/ | /*pʰaːls/ |

### Definitions

頗
* (literary) leaning to one side; oblique; slanting
* (literary or Hong Kong) very; rather; quite; considerably
    頗大／颇大 ― pō dà ― rather big
* (Eastern Min) about; almost
* a surname, Po

#### Synonyms

* (very):
* 不要太 (bùyàotài) (slang)
* 十分 (shífēn)
* 危險 / 危险 (Wu)
* 壞 / 坏 (huài)
* 孔 (kǒng) (literary, or in compounds)
* 很 (hěn)
* 極其 / 极其 (jíqí)
* 極度 / 极度 (jídù)
* 極為 / 极为 (jíwéi)
* 極端 / 极端 (jíduān)
* 滾 / 滚 (gǔn) (literary, or in compounds)
* 異常 / 异常 (yìcháng)
* 老大 (lǎodà) (colloquial, usually in the negative)
* 良
* 超 (chāo)
* 非常 (fēicháng)
* 頗為 / 颇为 (pōwéi) (literary)

#### Compounds

* 偏頗 / 偏颇
* 景頗族 / 景颇族 (Jǐngpōzú)
* 頗佳 / 颇佳
* 頗可 / 颇可
* 頗奈 / 颇奈
* 頗我 / 颇我
* 頗有 / 颇有 (pōyǒu)
* 頗為可觀 / 颇为可观
* 頗耐 / 颇耐
* 頗覆 / 颇覆
* 頗頗 / 颇颇
* 頗黎 / 颇黎

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04548
* “頗”, 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–
* (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “颇”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 178.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: は (ha)
* Kan-on: は (ha)
* Kun: かたよる (katayoru, 頗る)、すこぶる (sukoburu, 頗る)

## Korean
### Hanja

頗 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

頗: Hán Việt readings: pha, phả
頗: Nôm readings: phở, pha, phả, và
* chữ Nôm form of phở (“pho”).

#### References

* 1 2 3 Nguyễn (2014).
* 1 2 3 4 Trần (2004).