瀑 · pù
waterfall, cascade; heavy rain
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
waterfall, cascade; heavy rain
- Mandarin
- pù
- Cantonese
- buk6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 瀑 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
バク ボウ ハク ホウ ホク ボク たき にわかあめKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 폭
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7011
- Radical
- 水 · 85
- Strokes
- 18 · Unihan
- Residual
- 15
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
18 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 瀑
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- bawH · 薄報 反切 · #2814
- Middle Chinese
- buwk · 蒲木 反切 · #3194
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 15302 · bawH = 效開一去豪並 · buwk = 通開一入東並
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- pù
- kCantonese
- buk6
- kDefinition
- waterfall, cascade; heavy rain
- kTotalStrokes
- 18
- kRSUnicode
- 85.15
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:3448
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- bào,bó,pù 31778.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bào 0042.010 · pù 0891.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bào 013.110 · pù 289.120
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- pù粵buk6 bào粵bou6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 薄報 蒲木
- Kangxi positions
- 0659.130
- Guangyun positions
- 418.20 452.02
- GSR references
- 1136c
- Cangjie
- EATE
- Four-corner
- 3613.2