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U+4F34, 伴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F34

[U+4F33]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4F35]
See also:

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人火手 (OFQ), four-corner 29250, composition)

  1. companion, comrade, partner
  2. accompany

References

  • KangXi: page 96, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 475
  • Dae Jaweon: page 205, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 139, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4F34

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character



References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*paːns
*paːns
*paːns
*paːns, *pʰaːns
*pʰaːn, *baːnʔ
*pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
*pʰaːnʔ
*pʰaːns
*pʰaːns
*pʰaːns
*pʰaːns
*pʰaːns
*pʰaːns
*baːn
*baːnʔ, *baːns
*baːns
*baːns
*ban

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (3)
Final () (62) (62)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buɑnX/ /buɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/bʷɑnX/ /bʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/buɑnX/ /buɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bwanX/ /bwanH/
Li
Rong
/buɑnX/ /buɑnH/
Wang
Li
/buɑnX/ /buɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱuɑnX/ /bʱuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bàn bàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ banX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[C.b]ˤanʔ/
English comrade

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. 258 262
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*baːnʔ/ /*baːns/

Definitions

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Compounds

  • 伙伴 (huǒbàn)
  • 伴侶伴侣 (bànlǚ)
  • 伴侶動物伴侣动物
  • 伴同
  • 伴哥
  • 伴唱
  • 伴唱帶伴唱带
  • 伴唱影碟
  • 伴唱機伴唱机
  • 伴夥伴伙
  • 伴大夜
  • 伴奏 (bànzòu)
  • 伴奐伴奂
  • 伴姑
  • 伴姑兒伴姑儿
  • 伴娘 (bànniáng)
  • 伴宿
  • 伴手
  • 伴星
  • 學伴学伴
  • 廝伴厮伴
  • 搭伴
  • 旅伴
  • 木伴哥
  • 火伴 (huǒbàn)
  • 玩伴 (wánbàn)
  • 男伴
  • 相伴
  • 窩伴窝伴
  • 終身伴侶终身伴侣
  • 結伴结伴
  • 老伴
  • 舞伴
  • 良伴
  • 遊伴游伴
  • 陪伴 (péibàn)
  • 館伴馆伴

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. consort

Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana ばん, romaji Ban)

  1. A surname.

Korean

Hanja

(ban) (hangeul , revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

(bạn)

  1. friend; fellow; comrade

Usage notes

  • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for friend is bạn.

References