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阪

阪

See also: 坂

Translingual

Han character

阪 (radical 170 阜+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹水 (NLHE), four-corner 71247, composition ⿰⻖反)

References

  • KangXi: page 1346, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41562
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1848, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4117, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+962A

Chinese

trad. 阪
simp. 坂
alt. forms 坂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (反) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
扳 *praːn, *pʰraːn
板 *praːnʔ
版 *praːnʔ
瓪 *praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄 *praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑 *praːnʔ
蝂 *praːnʔ
眅 *pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪 *braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬 *braːnʔ
粄 *paːnʔ
反 *panʔ, *pʰan
返 *panʔ
坂 *panʔ
畈 *pans
販 *pans
汳 *pʰans
飯 *bonʔ, *bons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *braːnʔ, *panʔ) : semantic 阝 ‎(“mound”) + phonetic 反 ‎(OC *panʔ, *pʰan) – hill, slope.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 阪 阪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 元 (66) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III II
Fanqie 府遠切 扶板切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʉɐnX/ /bˠanX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʷiɐnX/ /bᵚanX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piuɐnX/ /bɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /puanX/ /baɨnX/
Li
Rong		 /piuɐnX/ /banX/
Wang
Li		 /pĭwɐnX/ /banX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯wɐnX/ /bʱanX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fǎn bàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 阪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjonX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pa[n]ʔ/
English slope, bank

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 阪 阪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2962 2971
Phonetic
component		 反 反
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 阪 反
Old
Chinese		 /*braːnʔ/ /*panʔ/
Notes 同阪

Noun

阪

  1. hillside farmland
  2. slope

Japanese

Kanji

阪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. slope, hillside

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

阪 • ‎(pan) (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune-Reischauer p'an, Yale phan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

阪 (phản, bản)

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