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凡

凡

凡 U+51E1, 凡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51E1
← 几
[U+51E0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 凢 →
[U+51E2]
See also: 几 and 凢

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

凡 (radical 16 几+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓戈 (HNI), four-corner 77210, composition ⿵几丶)

Derived characters

See also

  • 𠔼

Antonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 134, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1739
  • Dae Jaweon: page 299, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 276, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+51E1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 凡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 凡
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (凡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嵐 *b·ruːm
葻 *b·uːm
釩 *pʰomʔ
汎 *pʰoms, *bum
凡 *bom
帆 *bom, *boms
颿 *bom, *boms
軓 *bomʔ
梵 *bloms, *bum
芃 *boːŋ, *bum
風 *plum, *plums
飌 *plum
楓 *plum
猦 *plum
偑 *plum
檒 *plum
瘋 *plum
諷 *plums
堸 *blum
渢 *blum
鳳 *bums

Pictogram (象形) – a plate, a flat dish.

Borrowed for abstract meanings. Another character 盤 (OC *baːn) was created to refer to the original word.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 凡
Mandarin Beijing /fan³⁵/
Harbin /fan²⁴/ 下～
/fan⁵³/ ～是
Tianjin /fan⁴⁵/
Jinan /fã⁴²/
Qingdao /fã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /fan⁴²/
Xi'an /fã²⁴/
Xining /fã²⁴/
Yinchuan /fan⁵³/
Lanzhou /fɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /fan⁵¹/
Wuhan /fan²¹³/
Chengdu /fan³¹/
Guiyang /fan²¹/
Kunming /fã̠³¹/
Nanjing /faŋ²⁴/
Hefei /fæ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /fæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /xuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /fæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ve²³/
Suzhou /ve̞¹³/
Hangzhou /vẽ̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /va³¹/
Hui Shexian /fɛ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /fuːə⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fan¹³/
Xiangtan /ɸan¹²/
Gan Nanchang /fan⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /fan¹¹/
Taoyuan /fɑm¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fan²¹/
Nanning /fan²¹/
Hong Kong /fan²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /huan³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /uaiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huaŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /faŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 凡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 凡 (146)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 符咸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨɐm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biɐm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biɐm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buam/
Li
Rong		 /biɐm/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwɐm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯wɐm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 凡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjom ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]rom/
English in every case

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 凡
Reading # 1/1
No. 2914
Phonetic
component		 凡
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 凡
Old
Chinese		 /*bom/
Notes 鹹手冊據切韻改䒦

Definitions

凡

  1. ordinary; commonplace
  2. worldly; mortal; earthly
  3. outline; gist
  4. (music) the fourth scale degree in the Gongche musical notation
  5. every; all; any
  6. altogether

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

凡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Definitions

凡

  1. ordinary, common, mediocre

Readings

Korean

Hanja

凡 • ‎(beom)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 범()
  • Name (hangeul): 무릇()
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Vietnamese

Han character

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