Taxonomy of meanings for 播:　　

  • 播 bō (OC: paals MC: puɑ) 補過切 去 廣韻：【播古文 】
  • 播 bō (OC: paals MC: puɑ) 補過切 去 廣韻：【揚也放也弃也説文曰掩也一曰布也又姓播武殷賢人補過切五 】

    Additional information about 播

    說文解字: 【播】，穜也。 〔小徐本「穜」作「種」。〕 一曰：布也。从手、番聲。 〔小徐本「从手、番聲」在「一曰」之前。〕 【補過切】 【𢿥()】、古文播。 〔小徐本作「古文播從攴。」〕

      Criteria
    • SOW

      1. The current word for sowing is zhòng 種 (ant. shōu 收 "harvest").

      2. Bō 播 focusses on the spreading of seeds over a field.

      3. Jià 稼 (ant. sè 穡 "harvest") refers specifically to the sowing of grain.

      4. Shù 樹 is marginal in this group because the word refers generally to planting seedlings rather than sowing.

      5. Yì 藝 can occasionally be used to refer specifically to the planting of rice seedlings and the like.

      6. Zhí 殖 (ant. huò 獲 "harvest") includes the planting as well as the ensuing cultivation of domesticated plants.

      7. Zāi 栽 refers to placing of seedlings of any kind or provenance in the earth as part of agricultural cultivation, and the word first became current in Eastern Han times.

      8. Shí 蒔 refers to the replanting of seedlings from one cultivated patch to another.

    • SCATTER

      1. The current standard word for scattering anything in any way is sǎn 散.

      2. Bù 布 is prototypically to spread something with a positive purpose.

      3. Shī 施 refers to dispensing something in many places and thus spreading it around, and the object of spreading is usually a benefit.

      4. Pǔ 普 refers abstractly to something being spread over a considerable area.

      5. Kuì 潰 refers to being scattered and thus ruined.

      6. Lí 離 refers to the scattering or separation of what would naturally belong together.

      7. Bò 播 refers to scattering as dissemination for good use.