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粉

粉

Translingual

Han character

粉 (radical 119 米+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火木金尸竹 (FDCSH), four-corner 98927, composition ⿰米分)

References

  • KangXi: page 907, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26872
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1332, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3143, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7C89

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 粉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 粉
Bamboo and silk script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (分) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
扮 *prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ
盼 *pʰrɯːns
頒 *praːn, *bɯn
朌 *praːn, *bɯn
鳻 *praːn, *bɯn
份 *prɯn, *bɯns
汃 *pʰreːd, *prɯn
玢 *prɯn
邠 *prɯn
攽 *prɯn
砏 *prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn
貧 *brɯn
湓 *pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns
盆 *bɯːn
葐 *bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn
坌 *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
坋 *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
分 *pɯn, *bɯns
吩 *pɯn
粉 *pɯnʔ
黺 *pɯnʔ
芬 *pʰɯn
紛 *pʰɯn
衯 *pʰɯn
棻 *pʰɯn, *bɯn
氛 *pʰɯn, *bɯn
雰 *pʰɯn
忿 *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ
魵 *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
汾 *bɯn
羒 *bɯn
枌 *bɯn
棼 *bɯn
妢 *bɯn
梤 *bɯn
馚 *bɯn
鼢 *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
蚡 *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
弅 *bɯnʔ
秎 *bɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pɯnʔ) : semantic 米 ‎(“rice”) + phonetic 分 ‎(OC *pɯn, *bɯns) – face powder made of rice.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 粉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 方吻切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pɨunX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /piunX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piuənX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /punX/
Li
Rong		 /piuənX/
Wang
Li		 /pĭuənX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯uənX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fěn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 粉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fěn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjunX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mə.pənʔ/
English flour

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 粉
Reading # 1/1
No. 3151
Phonetic
component		 分
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 粉
Old
Chinese		 /*pɯnʔ/

Definitions

粉

  1. face powder
  2. powder
    麵粉是小麥做的粉。 [MSC, trad.]
    面粉是小麦做的粉。 [MSC, simp.]
    Miànfěn shì xiǎomài zuò de fěn. [Pinyin]
    Flour is a powder made from wheat.
  3. food made from starch or flour (noodles, vermicelli, etc.)
    粉條 / 粉条  ―  fěntiáo  ―  Chinese vermicelli
    涼粉 / 凉粉  ―  liángfěn  ―  grass jelly
    河粉  ―  héfěn  ―  he fen noodles
  4. bean or sweet potato noodles
  5. to powder; to become powder
  6. to whitewash
  7. whitewashed; white
  8. pink
    粉色  ―  fěnsè  ―  pink color
  9. Short for 粉絲／粉丝 (fěnsī, “fan; fanatic”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

粉

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. powder

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
粉
こ
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
Kanji in this term
粉
こな
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

粉 ‎(hiragana こな, romaji kona, alternative reading こ, romaji ko)

  1. powder

See also

Korean

Hanja

粉 • ‎(bun) (hangeul 분, revised bun, McCune-Reischauer pun, Yale pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

粉 (phấn)

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