朴 (piáo) · Park; Pak (common Korean surname)

Meanings

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

Characters

朴

piáo

Park; Pak (common Korean surname)

Examples

HSK 4

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.

HSK 5

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.