Character: 剝
Modern (Beijing) reading: bō
Preclassic Old Chinese: prōk
Classic Old Chinese: prōk
Western Han Chinese: prōk
Eastern Han Chinese: prōk
Early Postclassic Chinese: pọ̄k
Middle Postclassic Chinese: pọ̄k
Late Postclassic Chinese: pọ̄k
Middle Chinese: pạuk
English meaning : to cut up, flay, peel, pluck
Russian meaning[s]: 1) содрать, ободрать; 2) обобрать; отнять; 3) перевозить грузы; 4) звукоподражание стуку
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is bác. The most archaic loan is possibly Viet. róc 'to bark, peel' (cf. also rọc 'to cut open leaves of book'; tróc 'to scale off, peel off').
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 2898
Karlgren code: 1228 a
Vietnamese reading: bóc
