Character: 暴
Modern (Beijing) reading: bào
Preclassic Old Chinese: bākʷs
Classic Old Chinese: bāwh
Western Han Chinese: bāwh
Eastern Han Chinese: bāwh
Early Postclassic Chinese: bā̀w
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bā̀w
Late Postclassic Chinese: bā̀w
Middle Chinese: bầw
English meaning : be oppressive, violent; to oppress, overpower
Russian meaning[s]: 1) жестокий, бесчеловечный; насильственный; губить; жестоко обращаться; насильничать; 2) быстрый, внезапный; 3) Бао (фамилия); [pù] 1) сушить на солнце; 2) выставлять напоказ; обнаруживать, вскрывать
Comments: Also used in a compound: 暴虐 *bākʷs-ŋhakʷ 'be oppressive, coercive'. For *b- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Fuzhou po6, Chaozhou pau4, Jianou pau8. Sometimes also written as 曝 q.v.
Radical: 72
Four-angle index: 5540
Karlgren code: 1136 a-b
Vietnamese reading: bạo
Shijing occurrences: 30.1_, 58.5_
