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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山金尸竹 (BUCSH), four-corner 68027)

  1. look
  2. look after
  3. expect, hope for
  4. bright, lucid (eyes)

References

  • KangXi: page 801, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23167
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2476, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+76FC

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script 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 *pʰrɯːns) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pʰan⁵¹/
Harbin /pʰan⁵³/
Tianjin /pʰan⁵³/
Jinan /pʰã²¹/
Qingdao /pʰã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰan³¹²/
Xi'an /pʰã⁴⁴/
Xining /pʰã²¹³/
Yinchuan /pʰan¹³/
Lanzhou /pʰɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /pʰan²¹³/
Wuhan /pʰan³⁵/
Chengdu /pʰan¹³/
Guiyang /pʰan²¹³/
Kunming /pʰã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /pʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /pʰæ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pʰɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /pʰæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /pʰe³⁵/
Suzhou /pʰe̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pʰẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /pʰa⁴²/
Hui Shexian /pʰɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /pʰan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /pʰan⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /pʰan⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰan³³/
Nanning /pʰan³³/
Hong Kong /pʰan³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pʰan²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pʰuɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰaŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /faŋ³⁵/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 3129
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰrɯːns/

Verb

  1. to hope for, to long for
  2. to expect

References

  • in CEDICT on MDBG

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. look
  2. gaze
  3. expect
  4. hope for

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. look
  2. gaze
  3. expect
  4. hope for

Vietnamese

Han character

(phán)

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