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Definition 2024


Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 74 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月月 (BB), four-corner 77220, composition月)

  1. friend, pal, acquaintance

References

  • KangXi: page 504, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14340
  • Dae Jaweon: page 883, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2050, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+670B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pɯːŋ
*pɯːŋs, *pʰɯːŋ, *bɯːŋ
*pʰɯːŋ
*pʰɯːŋʔ, *bɯːŋ, *bɯːŋs
*bɯːŋ
*bɯːŋ
*bɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
*bɯːŋ
*pɯŋ
*bɯŋ
*brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
*prɯːŋ, *prɯːŋ
*pʰrɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pʰəŋ³⁵/
Harbin /pʰəŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /pʰəŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /pʰəŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /pʰəŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰəŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /pʰəŋ²⁴/
Xining /pʰə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /pʰəŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /pʰə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /pʰɤŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰoŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /pʰoŋ³¹/
Guiyang /pʰoŋ²¹/
Kunming /pʰoŋ¹/
Nanjing /pʰən²⁴/
Hefei /pʰəŋ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /pʰəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /pʰə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /bã²³/
Suzhou /bən¹³/
Hangzhou /boŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /boŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /pʰʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /pʰan⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /poŋ³³/
Xiangtan /bən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /pʰuŋ²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /pʰen¹¹/
Taoyuan /pʰen¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰɐŋ²¹/
Nanning /pʰɐŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /pʰɐŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /piŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pɛiŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /paiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰeŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /foŋ³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (129)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bəŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/bəŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/bəŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bəŋ/
Li
Rong
/bəŋ/
Wang
Li
/bəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱəŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
péng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
péng
Middle
Chinese
‹ bong ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˤəŋ/
English set of cowries; friend

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 # 1/1
No. 9663
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bɯːŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 三朋四友
  • 乞拉朋吉
  • 交朋結義交朋结义
  • 吉朋
  • 呼朋引伴
  • 呼朋引類呼朋引类
  • 夠朋友够朋友 (gòupéngyǒu)
  • 好朋友 (hǎopéngyǒu)
  • 引類呼朋引类呼朋
  • 挾朋樹黨挟朋树党
  • 朋交
  • 朋僚
  • 朋儔朋俦
  • 朋儕朋侪
  • 朋分花用
  • 朋友 (péngyǒu)
  • 朋友有舊朋友有旧
  • 朋奸
  • 朋從朋从
  • 朋比 (péngbǐ)
  • 朋比作仇
  • 朋比作奸
  • 朋比為奸朋比为奸 (péngbǐwéijiān)
  • 朋淫
  • 朋謀朋谋
  • 朋酒
  • 朋頭朋头
  • 朋馳朋驰
  • 朋黨朋党
  • 朋黨之爭朋党之争
  • 朋黨比周朋党比周
  • 朋黨論朋党论
  • 無朋无朋
  • 燕朋
  • 狂朋怪友
  • 狐朋狗友
  • 狐朋狗黨狐朋狗党
  • 男朋友 (nánpéngyǒu)
  • 碩大無朋硕大无朋
  • 老朋友
  • 耐久朋
  • 良朋
  • 良朋益友
  • 親朋亲朋
  • 親朋好友亲朋好友 (qīnpénghǎoyǒu)
  • 詩朋酒侶诗朋酒侣
  • 詩朋酒友诗朋酒友
  • 詩酒朋儕诗酒朋侪
  • 豬朋狗友猪朋狗友
  • 賓朋宾朋 (bīnpéng)
  • 賓朋滿座宾朋满座
  • 酒肉朋友 (jiǔròu péngyǒu)
  • 面朋
  • 韓朋韩朋
  • 韓朋賦韩朋赋
  • 韓朋鳥韩朋鸟
  • 高朋
  • 高朋故戚
  • 高朋滿座高朋满座

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana とも, romaji tomo)

  1. Alternative form of

Korean

Hanja

(bung) (hangeul , revised bung, McCune-Reischauer pung, Yale pung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bằng, bẵng)

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