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凡
凡
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Translingual
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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
- (ordinary): 偉 (extraordinary)
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
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simp. and trad. |
凡 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 凡
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (凡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): faan4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fàm
- Min Dong (BUC): huàng
- Min Nan (POJ): hoān
- Wu (Wiktionary): ve (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: fan2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fanr
- IPA (key): /fa̠n³⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: faan4
- Yale: fàahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: faan4
- IPA (key): /fɑːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fàm
- Hakka Romanization System: famˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: fam2
- IPA: /fam¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: huàng
- IPA (key): /huaŋ⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoān
- Tâi-lô: huān
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoan
- IPA (Xiamen): /huan²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /huan³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ve (T3)
- IPA (key): /v̻ᴇ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 凡 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /fan³⁵/ |
| Harbin |
/fan²⁴/ 下～ /fan⁵³/ ～是 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| 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
- ordinary; commonplace
- worldly; mortal; earthly
- outline; gist
- (music) the fourth scale degree in the Gongche musical notation
- every; all; any
- altogether
Compounds
Derived terms from 凡
Japanese
Kanji
凡
Definitions
凡
Readings
- Goon: ぼん (bon)
- Kan’on: はん (han)
- Kun: (non-Jōyō reading) おお (ō), (non-Jōyō reading) おおよそ (ōyoso), (non-Jōyō reading) およそ (oyoso), (non-Jōyō reading) おおよそ (凡そ, ōyoso), (non-Jōyō reading) およそ (凡そ, oyoso), (non-Jōyō reading) すべて (凡て, subete), (rare) (non-Jōyō reading) なみ (nami)