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瓣
瓣
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 弁 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 瓣 |
| Traditional | 瓣 |
Alternative forms
Han character
瓣 (radical 97 瓜+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹人十 (YJHOJ), four-corner 00441, composition ⿲辛瓜辛)
References
- KangXi: page 747, character 26
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21425
- Dae Jaweon: page 1155, character 27
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4043, character 12
- Unihan data for U+74E3
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
瓣 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (辡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 辬 | *praːn |
| 瓣 | *breːns |
| 辦 | *breːns |
| 辨 | *breːns, *brenʔ |
| 辡 | *prenʔ, *brenʔ |
| 辯 | *brenʔ |
| 辮 | *beːnʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *breːns) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 瓜 (“melon”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): baan6, faan6
- Min Nan (POJ): bān / pān
- Wu (Wiktionary): pe (T2); be (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: pan4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bann
- IPA (key): /pa̠n⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋㄦ
- Wade-Giles: panrh4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ball
- IPA (key): /pɑɻ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: baan6, faan6
- Yale: baahn, faahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: baan6, faan6
- IPA (key): /pɑːn²²/, /fɑːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: pe (T2); be (T3)
- IPA (key): /pᴇ³⁴/, /b̻ᴇ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 瓣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 山 (73) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 蒲莧切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/bˠɛnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/bᵚænH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/bænH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/bəɨnH/ |
| Li Rong |
/bɛnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/bænH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/bʱănH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
bàn |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 瓣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 781 |
| Phonetic component |
辡 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
瓣 |
| Old Chinese |
/*breːns/ |
Definitions
瓣
- †melon seeds
- petal
- segment; section; piece; clove (of garlic)
- (medicine) Short for 瓣膜 (bànmó, “valve”).
- Classifier for pieces and segments, such as those of (cut-up) fruits or petals.
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
瓣
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)
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Readings
Compounds
- 安全瓣 (あんぜんべん)
- 花瓣
- 豆瓣醤
Korean
Hanja
瓣 • (pan) (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune-Reischauer p'an, Yale phan)
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