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Character: 僕
Modern (Beijing) reading: pú
Preclassic Old Chinese: bōk
Classic Old Chinese: bōk
Western Han Chinese: bōk
Eastern Han Chinese: bōk
Early Postclassic Chinese: bōk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bōk
Late Postclassic Chinese: bwōk
Middle Chinese: buk
English meaning : servant; groom
Shuowen gloss: 給事者也.
Comments: In MC there also exists an irregular reading bok (FQ 蒲沃), but the word rhymes in *-ōk in OC, thus buk is the normal reflex. Regular Sino-Viet. is bộc. The character is also (since LZ) used for a homonymous *bōk 'hide, conceal'. For *b cf. Xiamen pɔk8 , Chaozhou pok8 , Fuzhou puk8 .
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 1211 b-f
Vietnamese reading: bõ
Shijing occurrences: 3.4
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