方舟

Chinese
 
square; quadrilateral; place
square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just
 boat
simp. and trad.
(方舟)		 方 舟

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 方 舟
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 陽 (106) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 府良切 職流切
Baxter pjwang tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʉɐŋ/ /t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʷiɐŋ/ /t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piuɑŋ/ /t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /puaŋ/ /cuw/
Li
Rong		 /piuaŋ/ /t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li		 /pĭwaŋ/ /t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /piwaŋ/ /t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fāng zhōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 fong1 zau1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 方 方 方 舟
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fāng fāng fāng zhōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjang › ‹ pjang › ‹ pjang › ‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C-paŋ/ /*paŋ/ /*paŋ/ /*tu/
English square method just, then boat

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 方 舟
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 3023 17504
Phonetic
component		 方 舟
Rime
group		 陽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 0 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 方 周
Old
Chinese		 /*paŋ/ /*tjɯw/
Notes 甲金文象槳即榜初文，
下初爲單筆，猶旂左初亦作單杆

Noun

方舟

  1. ark (ship)

Derived terms

Proper noun

方舟

  1. (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) Ark (ship built by Noah)

Verb

方舟

  1. (Classical Chinese, of two boats) to be joined together

Japanese
Kanji in this term
方 舟
はこ
Grade: 2		 ふね > ぶね
Grade: S
jukujikun kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
箱船
箱舟

Etymology

箱 (hako, “box; chest; ark”) +‎ 船 (fune, “ship; boat”). The spellings 箱船/箱舟 use the literal word for "box", while this spelling uses the Chinese 方 for the "squarish" shape of a box, as in 方形 (hōkei, “square”).

Pronunciation

Noun

方(はこ)舟(ぶね) • (hakobune) 

  1. (literally) a rectangular/cuboid/boxy watercraft[1]

Proper noun

方(はこ)舟(ぶね) • (Hakobune) 

  1. Short for ノアの方舟 (Noa no Hakobune, “Noah's Ark”).[1]

See also

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
方舟

Noun

方舟 or 方舟 or 方舟 • (bangju or McCune-Reischauer: pangju or Yale: pangcwu) (hangeul 방주)

  1. Hanja form? of 방주 (“ark”).

Proper noun

方舟 or 方舟 or 方舟 • (Bangju or McCune-Reischauer: Pangju or Yale: Pangcwu) (hangeul 방주)

  1. Hanja form? of 방주 (“Ark”).
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