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朋
朋
Translingual
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Han character
朋 (radical 74 月+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月月 (BB), four-corner 77220, composition ⿰月月)
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
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simp. and trad. |
朋 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 朋
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (朋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 崩 | *pɯːŋ |
| 堋 | *pɯːŋs, *pʰɯːŋ, *bɯːŋ |
| 漰 | *pʰɯːŋ |
| 倗 | *pʰɯːŋʔ, *bɯːŋ, *bɯːŋs |
| 朋 | *bɯːŋ |
| 鵬 | *bɯːŋ |
| 棚 | *bɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ |
| 鬅 | *bɯːŋ |
| 掤 | *pɯŋ |
| 淜 | *bɯŋ |
| 輣 | *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ |
| 繃 | *prɯːŋ, *prɯːŋ |
| 弸 | *pʰrɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
- Wade-Giles: p'êng2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pengr
- IPA (key): /pʰɤŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: pang4
- Yale: pàhng
- Cantonese Pinyin: pang4
- IPA (key): /pʰɐŋ²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pêng
- Tâi-lô: pîng
- Phofsit Daibuun: peeng
- IPA (Xiamen): /piɪŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /piɪŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /piɪŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 朋 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 朋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 登 (129) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 步崩切 |
| 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 | 朋 |
| 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; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 朋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9663 |
| Phonetic component |
朋 |
| Rime group |
蒸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
朋 |
| Old Chinese |
/*bɯːŋ/ |
Definitions
朋
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Compounds
Korean
Hanja
朋 • (bung) (hangeul 붕, revised bung, McCune-Reischauer pung, Yale pung)
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Vietnamese
Han character
朋 (bằng, bẵng)
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