Pu (Taoism)
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For the album by Flux of Pink Indians, see Uncarved Block (album). For the surname written as 朴 or 樸 in Hanja, see Park (Korean surname).
Pu is a Chinese word meaning "unworked wood; inherent quality; simple" that was an early Daoist metaphor for the natural state of humanity, and relates with the Daoist keyword ziran (literally "self so") "natural; spontaneous". The scholar Ge Hong (283-343 CE) immortalized pu in his pen name Baopuzi "Master who Embraces Simplicity" and eponymous book Baopuzi.
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Traditional Chinese | 樸 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 朴 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | unworked wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vietnamese alphabet | phác | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chữ Hán | 朴 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 복, 박 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanja | 樸 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kanji | 朴 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hiragana | ぼく, ほお | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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