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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手金尸竹 (QCSH), four-corner 58027, composition)

  1. dress up
  2. dress up as

References

  • KangXi: page 418, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11829
  • Dae Jaweon: page 765, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1840, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+626E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ
*pʰrɯːns
*praːn, *bɯn
*praːn, *bɯn
*praːn, *bɯn
*prɯn, *bɯns
*pʰreːd, *prɯn
*prɯn
*prɯn
*prɯn
*prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn
*brɯn
*pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns
*bɯːn
*bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn
*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
*pɯn, *bɯns
*pɯn
*pɯnʔ
*pɯnʔ
*pʰɯn
*pʰɯn
*pʰɯn
*pʰɯn, *bɯn
*pʰɯn, *bɯn
*pʰɯn
忿 *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ
*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
*bɯn
*bɯn
*bɯn
*bɯn
*bɯn
*bɯn
*bɯn
*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
*bɯnʔ
*bɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

Pronunciation



  • Middle Chinese: /pɨun/, /hˠuɛX/, /pɨunX/, /bɨunX/, /pˠɛnH/
Rime
Character
Reading # 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5
Initial () (1) (32) (1) (3) (1)
Final () (59) (32) (59) (59) (73)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Rising (X) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed Closed Open
Division () III II III III II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨun/ /hˠuɛX/ /pɨunX/ /bɨunX/ /pˠɛnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/piun/ /hʷᵚæX/ /piunX/ /biunX/ /pᵚænH/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuən/ /xuæiX/ /piuənX/ /biuənX/ /pænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pun/ /hwaɨjX/ /punX/ /bunX/ /pəɨnH/
Li
Rong
/piuən/ /xuɛX/ /piuənX/ /biuənX/ /pɛnH/
Wang
Li
/pĭuən/ /xwaiX/ /pĭuənX/ /bĭuənX/ /pænH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uən/ /xwaiX/ /pi̯uənX/ /bʱi̯uənX/ /pănH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fēn huǎ fěn fèn bàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 3128 3141 3150 3153
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*prɯːns/ /*hmroːlʔ/ /*pɯn/ /*pɯnʔ/

Verb

  1. to dress up, to disguise oneself
  2. to act, to play
  3. to put on an expression, to make faces

Compounds

  • 假扮
  • 刷扮
  • 喬裝打扮乔装打扮
  • 女扮男裝女扮男装
  • 女扮男身
  • 妝扮妆扮 (zhuāngbān)
  • 小打扮兒小打扮儿
  • 打扮 (dǎbàn)
  • 扮嘢
  • 扮家家酒
  • 扮戲扮戏
  • 扮故事
  • 扮演 (bànyǎn)
  • 扮白臉扮白脸
  • 扮相
  • 扮裝扮装 (bànzhuāng)
  • 扮鬼臉扮鬼脸
  • 改扮
  • 整扮
  • 猴子扮戲猴子扮戏
  • 男扮女裝男扮女装
  • 裝扮装扮 (zhuāngbàn)
  • 雌牙扮齒雌牙扮齿

References

  • in CEDICT on MDBG

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. dress-up, disguise

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

From Middle Chinese, with the addition of Old Japanese (su) for verb conjugation. (su) eventually evolved into modern Japanese する (suru).

Pronunciation

Verb

する (hiragana ふんする, romaji fun suru)

  1. to dress up in a disguise, to disguise oneself
    老人 (ろうじん) (ふん)して警察 (けいさつ) ()げた。
    Rōjin ni funshite keisatsu o nigeta.
    He dressed up as / disguised himself as an old man and escaped from the police.
  2. to put on a costume, to play a role
    去年 (きょねん)ハムレットに (ふん)しました。
    Kyonen hamuretto ni funshimashita.
    Last year I played / took the role of Hamlet.

Conjugation


Korean

Hanja

(bun, ban) (hangeul , , revised bun, ban, McCune-Reischauer pun, pan, Yale pun, pan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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