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蚌

蚌

Translingual

Han character

蚌 (radical 142 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈手十 (LIQJ), four-corner 55100)

  1. oysters, mussels
  2. mother-of-pearl

References

  • KangXi: page 1077, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32851
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2836, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+868C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蚌

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邦 *proːŋ
梆 *proːŋ
垹 *proːŋ
肨 *pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌 *broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤 *broːŋʔ
棒 *broːŋʔ
蜯 *broːŋʔ
琫 *poːŋʔ
菶 *poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸 *poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼 *boːŋ
蜂 *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸 *boːŋ
蓬 *boːŋ
篷 *boːŋ
唪 *boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲 *boːŋʔ
丰 *pʰoŋ
妦 *pʰoŋ
仹 *pʰoŋ
峯 *pʰoŋ
峰 *pʰoŋ
鋒 *pʰoŋ
烽 *pʰoŋ
蠭 *pʰoŋ
桻 *pʰoŋ
莑 *pʰoŋ
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧 *pʰoŋʔ
逢 *boŋ
縫 *boŋ, *boŋs
漨 *boŋ
捀 *boŋ, *boŋs
奉 *boŋʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蚌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 江 (9)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 步項切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠʌŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚɔŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bɔŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /baɨwŋX/
Li
Rong		 /bɔŋX/
Wang
Li		 /bɔŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱɔŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蚌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bæwngX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ˤroŋʔ/
English oyster, mussel

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 蚌 蚌
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3205 3209
Phonetic
component		 丰 丰
Rime
group		 東 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 㭋
Old
Chinese		 /*broːŋʔ/ /*breːŋʔ/
Notes 同說文螷，由步項切訓讀

Definitions

蚌

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Compounds

  • 剖蚌求珠
  • 明珠生蚌
  • 河蚌 (hébàng)
  • 珠蚌
  • 瓦器蚌盤／瓦器蚌盘
  • 老蚌生珠
  • 蚌埠市
  • 蚌殼／蚌壳
  • 蚌珠
  • 蛤蚌
  • 鷸蚌相爭／鹬蚌相争

Japanese

Kanji

蚌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

蚌 • ‎(bang) (hangeul 방, revised bang, McCune-Reischauer pang, Yale pang)

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