脖

脖 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月十月木 (BJBD), four-corner 7424₇, composition ⿰月孛)

• 𫉖

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 982, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29497
• Dae Jaweon: page 1435, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2076, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8116

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯːd) : semantic ⺼ (“flesh”) + phonetic 孛 (OC *bɯːds, *bɯːd).

Attested since the Yuan dynasty. Zhengzhang (2002) proposes that it comes from 襮 (OC *poːwɢ, “embroidered collar”). Sheng (2010) points out that it is unlikely because of the rare literary usage of 襮 in the literature compared to the explosive vernacular usage of 脖 since the Yuan dynasty; he instead proposes that it may be from Proto-Turkic *bōń (“neck”), but also see Wang (2016) and Sun and Du (2022) for some difficulties with the Turkic hypothesis.

脖

1. neck

Benedict (1979) relates this word to Tibetan དབུས (dbus, “middle; centre”). Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) relates this word to Proto-Monic *p[r/m]nus (“navel”).

脖

1. Used in words meaning “navel”.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): ほつ (hotsu)、ぼち (bochi)、ぼつ (botsu)

脖 • (bal) (hangeul 발, revised bal, McCune–Reischauer pal, Yale pal)

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脖: Hán Nôm readings: bột, bộp

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