朴 (piáo): Park; Pak (common Korean surnam…

Meanings

1 Park; Pak (common Korean surname)
2 Piao (Chinese surname)

Characters

朴

piáo

Park; Pak (common Korean surname)

Examples

朴是韩国最常见的三大姓之一。

Piáo shì Hánguó zuì chángjiàn de sān dà xìng zhīyī.

Park is one of the three most common surnames in South Korea.

歌手朴灿烈是组合EXO的成员。

Gēshǒu Piáo Cànliè shì zǔhé EXO de chéngyuán.

The singer Park Chanyeol is a member of the group EXO.

Tips

culture

Read piáo, 朴 is overwhelmingly the Korean surname Park, one of the three giant Korean surnames alongside Kim and Lee. It transliterates names like 朴灿烈 (Park Chanyeol) and 朴明洙 (Park Myung-soo). It is also a rare native Chinese surname.

Components

radical

木 mù

tree; wood

Left tree radical, the indexing component. 朴 originally named the bark or unworked wood of a tree, raw and unshaped. From that came the figurative sense of plain, simple, unadorned. 木 anchors a family of timber-related chars: 板 (plank), 桥 (bridge), 林 (forest), 材 (material).

phonetic

卜 bǔ

to divine; oracle-bone crack

Right 卜 supplies a rough sound (bǔ to pǔ, a p/b shift). Phonetic family includes 仆 (servant), 扑 (pounce), 赴 (head to). Pure phonetic role, no semantic flavor of divination here, just sound.