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放

放

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

放 (radical 66 攴+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人大 (YSOK), four-corner 08240, composition ⿰方攵)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 469, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13133
  • Dae Jaweon: page 818, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1451, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+653E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 放

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (方) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
縍 *paːŋ
榜 *paːŋʔ, *praːŋs, *braːŋ
蒡 *paːŋʔ, *braːŋ
牓 *paːŋʔ
螃 *paːŋʔ, *paːŋs, *baːŋ
搒 *paːŋs, *braːŋ
舫 *paːŋs, *paŋs
謗 *paːŋs
雱 *pʰaːŋ
磅 *pʰaːŋ, *pʰraːŋ
霶 *pʰaːŋ
滂 *pʰaːŋ
鎊 *pʰaːŋ
髈 *pʰaːŋʔ, *baːŋ
彷 *baːŋ, *pʰaŋʔ
趽 *baːŋ, *paŋ, *paŋs
房 *baːŋ, *baŋ
篣 *baːŋ, *braːŋ
騯 *baːŋ, *praːŋ, *braːŋ
傍 *baːŋ, *baːŋs
膀 *baːŋ
旁 *baːŋ
徬 *baːŋs
閍 *praːŋ
祊 *praːŋ
嗙 *praːŋ
方 *paŋ, *baŋ
汸 *paŋ
坊 *paŋ, *baŋ
邡 *paŋ, *pʰaŋs
枋 *paŋ
鈁 *paŋ
蚄 *paŋ
肪 *paŋ, *baŋ
鴋 *paŋ, *baŋ
牥 *paŋ
昉 *paŋʔ
瓬 *paŋʔ
放 *paŋʔ, *paŋs
倣 *paŋʔ
芳 *pʰaŋ
淓 *pʰaŋ
妨 *pʰaŋ, *pʰaŋs
紡 *pʰaŋʔ
仿 *pʰaŋʔ
髣 *pʰaŋʔ
鶭 *pʰaŋʔ
訪 *pʰaŋs
防 *baŋ, *baŋs
魴 *baŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *paŋʔ, *paŋs) : phonetic 方 ‎(OC *paŋ, *baŋ) + semantic 攵 ‎(“hand, action”) – an action, release.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 放
Mandarin Beijing /fɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /faŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /fɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /faŋ²¹/
Qingdao /faŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /faŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /faŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /fɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /fɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /fɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /fɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /faŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /faŋ¹³/
Guiyang /faŋ²¹³/
Kunming /fã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /faŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /fɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /fɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuɑŋ³⁵/
/xuə³⁵/
Hohhot /fɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /fɑ̃³⁵/
Suzhou /fɑ̃⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /fɑŋ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /huɔ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /fo³²⁴/
Tunxi /fau⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /fan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /hɔn⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /fɔŋ⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /foŋ⁵³/ 開～
/pioŋ⁵³/ ～學
Taoyuan /foŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fɔŋ³³/
Nanning /fɔŋ³³/
Hong Kong /fɔŋ³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hɔŋ²¹/
/paŋ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pouŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pɔŋ³³/
/xuɔŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huaŋ²¹³/
/paŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /faŋ³⁵/
/ʔbaŋ³⁵/
Rime
Character 放 放
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 陽 (106) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 分网切 甫妄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʉɐŋX/ /pʉɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʷiɐŋX/ /pʷiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piuɑŋX/ /piuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /puaŋX/ /puaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /piuaŋX/ /piuaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /pĭwaŋX/ /pĭwaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /piwaŋX/ /piwaŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fǎng fàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 放 放
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fǎng fàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjangX › ‹ pjangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*paŋʔ/ /*paŋ-s/
English imitate release; let go

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 放 放
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3036 3038
Phonetic
component		 方 方
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 昉 放
Old
Chinese		 /*paŋʔ/ /*paŋs/

Definitions

放

  1. to release; to free; to liberate; to let out
  2. to place something (down somewhere)
  3. to put on; to play (a recording)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

放

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. set free
  2. release
  3. fire
  4. shoot
  5. emit
  6. banish
  7. liberate

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

放 • ‎(bang) (hangeul 방, revised bang, McCune-Reischauer pang, Yale pang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

放 (phóng, phúng, phưng)

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