鈈

See also: 钚

鈈 U+9208, 鈈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9208 ← 鈇 [U+9207] CJK Unified Ideographs 鈉 → [U+9209]

Translingual

Han character

鈈 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金一火 (CMF), composition ⿰釒不)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1298, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40214
• Dae Jaweon: page 1801, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4174, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9208

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
肧	*pʰlɯː, *pʰɯ, *pʰlɯː
俖	*pʰɯːʔ
娝	*prɯʔ
痞	*prɯʔ, *brɯʔ, *pɯʔ
丕	*pʰrɯ
伾	*pʰrɯ
秠	*pʰrɯ, *pʰrɯʔ, *pʰɯ, *pʰɯʔ
駓	*pʰrɯ
怌	*pʰrɯ
豾	*pʰrɯ
髬	*pʰrɯ
魾	*pʰrɯ, *brɯ
鉟	*pʰrɯ, *brɯ
嚭	*pʰrɯʔ
邳	*brɯ
岯	*brɯ
否	*brɯʔ, *pɯʔ
抔	*bɯ, *pʰlɯː
不	*pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ'
紑	*pɯ, *pʰɯ, *pʰɯʔ
鴀	*pɯ, *pɯʔ
衃	*pʰɯ, *pʰlɯː
罘	*bɯ
芣	*bɯ
杯	*plɯː
盃	*plɯː
桮	*pɯː
坯	*pʰɯː
胚	*pʰɯː

Etymology 1

trad.		鈈
simp.		钚

Chemical element
Pu
Previous: 鎿／镎 (ná), 錼 (nài) (Np)
Next: 鎇／镅 (méi), 鋂／𰾄 (méi) (Am)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bù (bu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷peq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bù
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴
    • Yale: bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buh
    • Palladius: бу (bu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bat¹
    • Yale: bāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put
    • Tâi-lô: put
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pud
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /put̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷peq
    • MiniDict: peh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴peq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pəʔ⁵⁵/

Definitions

鈈

1. (chemistry, Mainland China) plutonium

   Synonym: 鈽／钸 (bù) (Taiwan)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 鈈 – see 鈹 (“beryllium; long stone needle used for acupuncture; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 鈹).

Tày

Noun

鈈 (bất)

1. Nôm form of bất (“fishhook”).

   枚𣦍立竹𣦍如鈈

   Mài ngày rổp trúc ngày như bất

   An Honest Mai meets an honest Trúc like fishhooks

References

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội