暴

暴 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日廿金水 (ATCE), four-corner 6013₂, composition ⿱日㳟)

• 儤, 嚗, 𢖔, 懪, 㩧, 瀑, 曝, 𦢊, 𣞺, 爆, 犦, 𭻶, 䂍, 𥗋, 𮂡, 𦆿, 𧔙, 襮, 𧭤, 𧲐, 𨇅, 䤖, 鑤, 𢑾, 鸔, 𣋰, 𣀛, 𣀠, 㿺, 𩁠, 𩙕, 𪇰, 𮆭, 𩯱

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 499, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14137
• Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1532, character 15
• Unihan data for U+66B4

• Unihan data for U+FA06

Historical forms of the character 暴
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

This character 暴 itself originates from 𮲡 (original form of 曝), an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 日 (“sun”) + 共 (“hands lifting something”) – to expose to the sun. 米 (“rice”) was later added to emphasize the meaning of drying things out in the sun.

The sense of "violence" was represented by 𫻺 in oracle bone script; ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 虎 (“tiger”) + 戈 (“weapon”). However, by the time of bamboo slip script, usage of 𫻺 had been replaced entirely by phonetically borrowing 暴.

暴

1. sudden
2. violent; cruel; brutal; tyrannical

   暴行  ―  bàoxíng  ―  act of violence

3. quick-tempered; hot-tempered

   暴躁  ―  bàozào  ―  irritable; irascible; bad-tempered

4. to spoil; to waste; to damage

   自暴自棄／自暴自弃  ―  zìbàozìqì  ―  to abandon oneself to despair

5. (literary) to abuse; to oppress; to treat cruelly

   • 陽虎嘗暴匡人。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     阳虎尝暴匡人。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Yáng Hǔ cháng bào Kuāng rén. [Pinyin]

     Yang Hu once abused the people of Kuang.

暴

1. Alternative form of 曝 (“to sun; to air in the sun”)

   • 雖有天下易生之物也，一日暴之、十日寒之，未有能生者也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     虽有天下易生之物也，一日暴之、十日寒之，未有能生者也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Suī yǒu tiānxià yì shēng zhī wù yě, yīrì pù zhī, shí rì hán zhī, wèiyǒu néng shēng zhě yě. [Pinyin]

     Suppose the case of the most easily growing thing in the world; if you expose it for one day to the sun, and then expose it for ten days to cold, it will not be able to grow.

暴

1. to show; to expose

暴

1. to stick out; to bulge

暴

1. Used in 暴樂／暴乐 (bóluò).

暴

1. (Hokkien) to sprout; to send forth (leaves, buds, beard, bubbles, etc.)

暴

1. (Hokkien) to emerge; to pop up; to spring forth

• “暴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. violent; brutal; fierce

• Go-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō)^{←ぼう (bou, historical)}、ぼく (boku)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)^{←ほう (fou, historical)}、ほく (hoku)
• Kan’yō-on: ばく (baku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: あばく (abaku, 暴く, Jōyō)、あばれる (abareru, 暴れる, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 暴 (MC bawH, “violent”).

• (Tokyo) ぼー [bóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [bo̞ː]

暴(ぼう) • (bō) -na (adnominal 暴(ぼう)な (bō na), adverbial 暴(ぼう)に (bō ni))

1. violent

暴(ぼう) • (bō) 

1. violentness

From Middle Chinese 暴 (MC buwk, “to expose to the sun”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʰo̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [폭]

 

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

暴

Wikisource

暴 (eumhun 나타날 폭 (natanal pok))
暴 (eumhun 드러날 폭 (deureonal pok))

1. (only in compounds) hanja form^? of 폭 (“to show; to appear; to manifest”)

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading influenced by Middle Chinese 暴 (MC buwk). The original reading is 포 (po) based on Middle Chinese 暴 (MC bawH, “violent”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʰo̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [폭]

暴 (eumhun 사나울 폭 (sanaul pok))

1. (only in compounds) hanja form^? of 폭 (“fierce; violent; brutal”)

From Middle Chinese 暴 (MC bawH, “violent”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʰo̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [포(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

暴 (eumhun 사나울 포 (sanaul po))

1. hanja form^? of 포 (“fierce; violent; brutal”)

From Middle Chinese 暴.

暴 (eumhun 앙상할 박 (angsanghal bak))

1. (literary Chinese) hanja form^? of 박 (“sparse; bare; thin; skinny”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

暴: Hán Việt readings: bạo (薄(bạc)報(báo)切(thiết))^{[1][2][3][4][5]}, bộc (步(bộ)木(mộc)切(thiết))^[3][5]
暴: Nôm readings: bạo^{[1][2][3][4][6]}, bão^[1][2][7], bộc^[7][5], bậu^[1], bẹo^[3]

1. chữ Hán form of bạo (“ferocious; cruel; violent”).