頗

See also: 颇

頗 U+9817, 頗 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 4128₆, 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

trad.		頗
simp.		颇
alternative forms		𩑼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	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): po², po¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): puō / pō̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pho / phó͘ / phó / phò

  (Teochew, Peng'im): puan² / po²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pō
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: po
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo¹
    • Yale: pwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: po
    • Palladius: по (po)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pǒ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo³
    • Yale: pwǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: poo
    • Palladius: по (po)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: po², po¹
    • Yale: pó, pō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: po², po¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: po², po¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔː³⁵/, /pʰɔː⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: puō / pō̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuo³³/, /pʰo³³/

Note:

• puō - vernacular (“about, almost”);
• pō̤ - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho
    • Tâi-lô: pho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoy
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰo³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó͘
    • Tâi-lô: phóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phor
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phó
    • Tâi-lô: phó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoir
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰo⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phò
    • Tâi-lô: phò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoix
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰo¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: puan² / po²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phuáⁿ / phó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰũã⁵²/, /pʰo⁵²/

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• 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/	/pʰuɑX/	/pʰuɑH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰuɑ/	/pʰuɑX/	/pʰuɑH/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰuɑ/	/pʰuɑX/	/pʰuɑH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰwa/	/pʰwaX/	/pʰwaH/
Li Rong	/pʰuɑ/	/pʰuɑX/	/pʰuɑH/
Wang Li	/pʰuɑ/	/pʰuɑX/	/pʰuɑH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰuɑ/	/pʰuɑX/	/pʰuɑH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pō	pǒ	pò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	po1	po2	po3

• 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

1. (literary) leaning to one side; oblique; slanting
2. (literary) very; rather; quite; considerably

   頗大／颇大  ―  pō dà  ―  rather big

3. (Eastern Min) about; almost
4. a surname: Po

Synonyms

• (very):

• 不要太 (bùyàotài) (slang)
• 十分 (shífēn)
• 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)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢

Japanese

Kanji

頗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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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

1. Nôm form of phở (“pho”).