phonetic map : 巿 fu
goulnik
January 17, 2009, 05:00 PM posted in General Discussion| fu | ||
| 巿 fú (component) |
* 芾 fú flourishing; growing abundantly 芾芾 fúfú luxuriant (plants) |
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| fei | ||
| 肺 fèi n. lungs 肺脏 fèizàng ∼ 肺炎 fèiyán pneumonia 肺癌 fèi'ái lung cancer |
* 芾 fèi . 蔽芾 bìfèismall and dense (leaves/branches) |
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| pei | ||
| 沛 pèi abundant 充沛 chōngpèi plentiful; abundant; full of 沛泽 pèizé thickets and marshes |
旆 pèi swallow-tail flag; banner 羽旆 yǔpèi banner adorned with feathers 旆旆 pèipèi flying in the wind (flags); growing luxuriantly (plants) |
霈 pèi heavy rain 渥霈 wòpèi n. copious rains 雱霈 pāngpèi hard; heavy (rain) |
goulnik
January 18, 2009, 08:38 AMchangye, according to 《现代汉语词典》, 巿 (fú) is the same as 黻 (fú) embroidered, from 黹 (zhǐ) 'embroider' and 犮 bá phonetic.
as to the difference between 巿 (fú) and 市 (shì), in case your browser doesn't make it clear:
changye
January 18, 2009, 09:07 AMHi goulniky,
I was wrong. I should have looked more closely into my Chinese dictionaries.
For example, the character "肺" is classified as "four strokes" under the radical "月", but as you know, 市 (shi4) is "five strokes", which means the 市 in 肺 and 市 （shi4） are still two different characters in modern Mandarin and dictionaries.
On the other hand, my Japanese dictionaries all classifies 肺 as "月 (or 肉) + five strokes". In modern Japanese, there seems to be no distinction between the shapes of 市 （shi4） and 市 (fu2) anymore. How confusing they are!
changye
January 18, 2009, 09:26 AMIncidentally, today I bought a Chinese dictionary titled "常用字字源字典", where you can see the historical transitions of usages of Chinese characters.
The dictionary says that the 市 in "沛" and the one in "肺" were also two different characters more than two thousands years ago. The former is originated in "黻" (fu2), and the latter "po4" (and, I can't display/show the character, sorry). Looks like the history of Chinese characters is much more complicated than I thought before!
changye
January 18, 2009, 01:30 AMWow, it's not "市" (shi4), but 市 (fu2)..... just interesting! According to 康熙字典, the latter 市 has several readings, such as "fu2", "po2", "bei4" and "fei4".
Furthermore, the shapes of both "市" are slightly different from each other! 市 (shi4, market) has five strokes, and 市 (fu2) four strokes. In short, the former is "亠 + 巾", and the latter "巾 + 一". But they have the same shape in modern dictionaries.