埠

埠 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土竹口十 (GHRJ), four-corner 4714₇, composition ⿰土阜)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5161
• Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 454, character 6
• Unihan data for U+57E0

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *baːs) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 阜 (OC *buʔ).

A late formation (後起字). Earlier forms of southern Chinese toponyms using the character were often written with the homophone 步 (MC buH) in historical records dated from the Northern Wei to Ming dynasties, which has been conjectured to be a transcription of an earlier Kra-Dai word (Kang, 2010). Cf. 墟 (xū, “market”).

埠

1. pier; wharf; dock
2. port city
3. commercial or trading port
4. city; town

   外埠  ―  wàibù  ―  other cities

   埠仔 [Cantonese]  ―  fau⁶ zai² [Jyutping]  ―  small city; small town

• Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciations fù and fǔ.
• Historically used as a suffix for many foreign port cities, such usage is now obsolete and replaced with 市 (shì, “city”).

• (pier):

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ほ (ho)
• Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)
• Kun: つか (tsuka, 埠); はとば (hatoba, 埠)

埠 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu)

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埠: Hán Nôm readings: phụ

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