博士

Chinese

 
extensive; ample; rich; obtain; aim; to win; to get; plentiful; to gamble
scholar; warrior; knight
simp. and trad.
(博士)

Etymology

Attestable since at least the Eastern Han dynasty. The sense of “doctor” is wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese  (はく) () (hakushi).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (1) (20)
Final () (104) (19)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pwɑk̚/ /d͡ʒɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʷɑk̚/ /ɖ͡ʐɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/puɑk̚/ /d͡ʒieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pwak̚/ /ɖ͡ʐɨX/
Li
Rong
/puɑk̚/ /d͡ʒiəX/
Wang
Li
/puɑk̚/ /d͡ʒĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pwɑk̚/ /ɖ͡ʐʱiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bo zhì
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì
Middle
Chinese
‹ pak › ‹ dzriX ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˁak/ /*[m-s-]rəʔ/
English broad officer; gentleman

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 3474 11511
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*paːɡ/ /*zrɯʔ/

Noun

博士

  1. doctorate; Ph.D.
    博士   bóshìshēng   doctorate candidate
    哲學博士 / 哲学博士   zhéxué bóshì   Doctor of Philosophy
    北京大學取得博士學位 [MSC, trad.]
    北京大学取得博士学位 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā gāng cóng Běijīng dàxué qǔdé bóshì xuéwèi. [Pinyin]
    He recently obtained his doctorate degree from Peking University.
  2. doctor (someone with a Ph.D.)
    博士 / 博士   bóshì   Dr. Wu
    博士講座主講人 [MSC, trad.]
    博士讲座主讲人 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhāng bóshì shì zhè chǎng jiǎngzuò de zhǔjiǎngrén. [Pinyin]
    Dr. Zhang is the presenter of this seminar.
  3. (historical) court academician (in feudal China)
  4. (historical) master; person with a particular skill
    博士   chá bóshì   a tea master
  5. (historical) learned scholar; polymath

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (博士):

Others:

  • Manchu: ᠪᠠᡴᠰᡳ (baksi), ᠪᠠᡴᡧᡳ (bakši, scholar; Confucian scholar)
    • → Chinese: 把式 (bǎshì), 把勢把势 (bǎshì, “martial arts; master; skill”), 把戲把戏 (bǎxì, “circus tricks; cheap tricks”)
    • → Chinese: 巴克什 (bākèshí, “baksi, title given to Qing Dynasty scholars”)
  • Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠭᠰᠢ (baɣsi) / багш (bagš, teacher, instructor; master; trainer)
  • Kazakh: бақсы (baqsı, shaman, sorcerer)
  • Persian: بخشی (baxši, scribe, secretary; surgeon; vice-regent; inspector; grand falconer)
  • Uyghur: باخشى (baxshi, sorcerer, shaman, wizard; witchcraft healer, witch-doctor), باخشىلىق (baxshiliq, falconry, hunting with birds of prey; witchcraft, shamanism)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
はく
Grade: 4

Grade: 4
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 博士 (pak dzriX)

Pronunciation

Noun

博士 (hiragana はくし, rōmaji hakushi)

  1. a doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)
Descendants

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
はく > はか
Grade: 4
し > せ
Grade: 4
Irregular

Pronunciation

Noun

博士 (hiragana はかせ, rōmaji hakase)

  1. (historical) a court academician
  2. a doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
ひろ
Grade: 4

Grade: 4
yutōyomi

Proper noun

博士 (hiragana ひろし, rōmaji Hiroshi)

  1. A male given name

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

博士 (baksa, McCune-Reischauer: paksa, Yale: pakqsa) (hangeul 박사)

  1. Hanja form? of 박사 (doctor).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word

Noun

博士

  1. Hán tự form of bác sĩ (medical doctor; physician).
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