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蕃

蕃

See also: 番

Translingual

Han character

蕃 (radical 140 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹木田 (THDW), four-corner 44609)

  1. foreign things

References

  • KangXi: page 1056, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31906
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3293, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+8543

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蕃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (番) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皤 *paːl, *baːl
嶓 *paːl
番 *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
播 *paːls
譒 *paːls
鄱 *baːl
潘 *pʰaːn
蟠 *baːn, *ban
磻 *baːn
蕃 *pan, *ban
轓 *pan, *pʰan
鱕 *pan
鐇 *pan, *ban
藩 *pan, *ban
籓 *pan
橎 *panʔ
翻 *pʰan
幡 *pʰan
飜 *pʰan
旛 *pʰan, *ban
繙 *pʰan, *ban
燔 *ban
蹯 *ban
膰 *ban
羳 *ban
鷭 *ban
璠 *ban
襎 *ban
墦 *ban

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蕃 蕃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 元 (66) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 附袁切 甫煩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bʉɐn/ /pʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bʷiɐn/ /pʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuɐn/ /piuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buan/ /puan/
Li
Rong		 /biuɐn/ /piuɐn/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwɐn/ /pĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯wɐn/ /pi̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fán fān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蕃 蕃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fān fán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjon › ‹ bjon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*par/ /*[b]ar/
English hedge, screen, fence luxuriant (growth)

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 蕃 蕃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2881 2896
Phonetic
component		 番 番
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 蕃 煩
Old
Chinese		 /*pan/ /*ban/

Definitions

蕃

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See also

Japanese

Kanji

蕃

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. grow thick and full (of plant growth)
  2. multiply, increase

Readings

Korean

Hanja

蕃 • ‎(beon) (hangeul 번, revised beon, McCune-Reischauer pŏn, Yale pen)

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