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般
般
Translingual
Han character
般 (radical 137 舟+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜竹弓水 (HYHNE), four-corner 27447, composition ⿰舟殳)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 1009, character 30
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30388
- Dae Jaweon: page 1467, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3057, character 8
- Unihan data for U+822C
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
般 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 般
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (般) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 螌 | *praːn |
| 般 | *praːn, *paːn, *baːn |
| 媻 | *baːl, *baːn |
| 搫 | *baːl, *baːn |
| 搬 | *paːn |
| 盤 | *baːn |
| 磐 | *baːn |
| 瘢 | *baːn |
| 幋 | *baːn |
| 槃 | *baːn |
| 縏 | *baːn |
| 鎜 | *baːn |
| 鞶 | *baːn |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 舟 (“boat”) + 殳 (“rotate”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
- Wade-Giles: pan1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
- IPA (key): /pa̠n⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: p'an2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: panr
- IPA (key): /pʰa̠n³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ
- Wade-Giles: po1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bo
- IPA (key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: but3, pun4, bun1, bo1
- Yale: but, pùhn, būn, bō
- Cantonese Pinyin: but8, pun4, bun1, bo1
- IPA (key): /puːt̚³/, /pʰuːn²¹/, /puːn⁵⁵/, /pɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 般 | 般 | 般 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 幫 (1) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 桓 (62) | 桓 (62) | 刪 (69) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I | II |
| Fanqie | 薄官切 | 北潘切 | 布還切 |
| Reconstructions | |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/buɑn/ | /puɑn/ | /pˠan/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/bʷɑn/ | /pʷɑn/ | /pᵚan/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/buɑn/ | /puɑn/ | /pɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/bwan/ | /pwan/ | /paɨn/ |
| Li Rong |
/buɑn/ | /puɑn/ | /pan/ |
| Wang Li |
/buɑn/ | /puɑn/ | /pan/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/bʱuɑn/ | /puɑn/ | /pan/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
pán | bān | bān |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |||
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| Character | 般 | 般 | 般 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 227 | 231 | 241 |
| Phonetic component |
般 | 般 | 般 |
| Rime group |
元 | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
班 | 𤳖 | 槃 |
| Old Chinese |
/*praːn/ | /*paːn/ | /*baːn/ |
Definitions
般
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Compounds
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References
Japanese
Kanji
般
Readings
- Goon: ばん (ban) (non-Jōyō reading), へん (hen) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: はん (han)
- Kan’yōon: はつ (hatsu) (non-Jōyō reading), はん (han)
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
般 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)
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