剝

剝 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女水中弓 (VELN), four-corner 2210₀, composition ⿰彔刂)

• KangXi: page 141, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2049
• Dae Jaweon: page 321, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 346, character 4
• Unihan data for U+525D

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *proːɡ) : phonetic 彔 (OC *b·roːɡ) + semantic 刀.

剝

1. (Classical Chinese) to cut apart
2. to peel; to skin; to shell
3. to fall off or to erode
4. to strip; to deprive
5. (Cantonese, Hakka, Zhongshan Min) to take off (clothes)

Use 剝／剥 (bāo) for peeling something with one's hands, like a tangerine. Use 削 (xiāo) for peeling something with a knife or peeler, like a potato.

• (to take off):

• → Proto-Tai: *poːkᴰ (“peel”)
  • Lao: ປອກ (pǭk, “peel”)
  • Lü: ᦔᦸᧅᧈ (ṗoak¹)
  • Shan: ပွၵ်ႇ (pàuk)
  • Thai: ปอก (bpɔ̀ɔk, “peel”)

• (Min Nan) “Entry #5741”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(common “Jōyō” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 剥)

1. peel
2. peel off
3. strip

• Go-on: ほく (hoku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku, Jōyō)
• Kun: はがす (hagasu, 剝がす, Jōyō); はがれる (hagareru, 剝がれる, Jōyō); はげる (hageru, 剝げる, Jōyō); はぐ (hagu, 剝ぐ, Jōyō); むく (muku, 剝く)

Included in the 2010 jōyō reform instead of 剥, despite it having been standard in Japanese character sets.

剝 (eum 박 (bak))

1. to strip
2. undress
3. to cut, trim
4. injure

剝: Hán Nôm readings: bác, bóc

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