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泛

泛

See also: 汎 and 氾

Translingual

Han character

泛 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水竹戈人 (EHIO), four-corner 32137)

  1. to drift, float
  2. careless, reckless
  3. to be suffused with
  4. general, non-specific
  5. extensive
  6. flood
  7. pan-

References

  • KangXi: page 616, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17298
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1569, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6CDB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 泛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (乏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
砭 *prom, *proms
貶 *promʔ
窆 *proms
泛 *pʰoms, *bob
姂 *pʰoms, *bob, *kpʰob
䒦 *pʰom, *pʰoms
柉 *bom
覂 *poŋʔ
眨 *sproːb
鴔 *brub
乏 *bob

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 泛 泛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 滂 (2) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 凡 (146) 乏 (148)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 孚梵切 房法切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰɨɐmH/ /bɨɐp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰiɐmH/ /biɐp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰiɐmH/ /biɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰuamH/ /buap̚/
Li
Rong		 /pʰiɐmH/ /biɐp̚/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭwɐmH/ /bĭwɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰi̯wɐmH/ /bʱi̯wɐp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fàn fá
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泛
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phjomH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰ(r)[o]m-s/
English to float

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 泛 泛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2844 2853
Phonetic
component		 乏 乏
Rime
group		 談 盍
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 汎 乏
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰoms/ /*bob/

Definitions

泛

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Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

泛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Usage notes

This character is not a modern Japanese character. It appears mostly in new reports of China or Taiwan issues. The character 汎 is the modern Japanese character which parallels this Chinese character in usage, such as in reports about the Pan-Blue Alliance written as 泛藍連盟 in Japanese news reports.

Korean

Hanja

泛 • ‎(beom, bong) (hangeul 범, 봉, revised beom, bong, McCune-Reischauer pŏm, pong, Yale pem, pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

泛 (phiếm, phím, mẹp)

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