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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿水竹田 (TEHW), four-corner 44169, composition)

  1. fence
  2. boundary
  3. outlying border

References

  • KangXi: page 1066, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32346
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3322, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+85E9

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*paːl, *baːl
*paːl
*paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
*paːls
*paːls
*baːl
*pʰaːn
*baːn, *ban
*baːn
*pan, *ban
*pan, *pʰan
*pan
*pan, *ban
*pan, *ban
*pan
*panʔ
*pʰan
*pʰan
*pʰan
*pʰan, *ban
*pʰan, *ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (1)
Final () (66) (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fān
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjon ›
Old
Chinese
/*par/
English hedge, screen, fence

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2885 2909
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pan/ /*ban/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 三藩
  • 三藩之亂三藩之乱
  • 三藩市 (Sānfānshì)
  • 分藩
  • 四藩
  • 外藩
  • 宗藩
  • 屏藩
  • 昵藩
  • 曾國藩曾国藩
  • 理藩院
  • 羊觸藩籬羊触藩篱
  • 羝羊觸藩羝羊触藩
  • 藩司
  • 藩國藩国
  • 藩屏
  • 藩屬藩属
  • 藩府
  • 藩庫藩库
  • 藩服
  • 藩溷
  • 藩籬藩篱 (fānlí)
  • 藩臺藩台
  • 藩輔藩辅
  • 藩邸
  • 藩鎮藩镇
  • 藩鎮之亂藩镇之乱
  • 陳之藩陈之藩
  • 雄藩

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Suffix

(hiragana はん, romaji -han)

  1. fiefdom, domain

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. fence, hedge
  2. margin, boundary, border
  3. marquisate
  4. defence

Derived terms