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番

番

See also: 蹯 and 蕃

Translingual

Han character

番 (radical 102 田+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹木田 (HDW), four-corner 20609, composition ⿱釆田)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 763, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21858
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1172, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2543, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+756A

See also

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 番

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (番) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皤 *paːl, *baːl
嶓 *paːl
番 *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
播 *paːls
譒 *paːls
鄱 *baːl
潘 *pʰaːn
蟠 *baːn, *ban
磻 *baːn
蕃 *pan, *ban
轓 *pan, *pʰan
鱕 *pan
鐇 *pan, *ban
藩 *pan, *ban
籓 *pan
橎 *panʔ
翻 *pʰan
幡 *pʰan
飜 *pʰan
旛 *pʰan, *ban
繙 *pʰan, *ban
燔 *ban
蹯 *ban
膰 *ban
羳 *ban
鷭 *ban
璠 *ban
襎 *ban
墦 *ban

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban) : phonetic 釆 + semantic 田 – "animal's footprint in the field", original form of 蹯 (fán).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 番 番 番
Reading # 1/5 2/5 5/5
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 滂 (2) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 元 (66) 元 (66) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division (等) III III I
Fanqie 附袁切 孚袁切 補過切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bʉɐn/ /pʰʉɐn/ /puɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bʷiɐn/ /pʰʷiɐn/ /puɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuɐn/ /pʰiuɐn/ /puɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buan/ /pʰuan/ /pwaH/
Li
Rong		 /biuɐn/ /pʰiuɐn/ /puɑH/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwɐn/ /pʰĭwɐn/ /puɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯wɐn/ /pʰi̯wɐn/ /puɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fán fān bò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 番
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phjon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰar/
English a turn, a time

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 番 番 番
Reading # 2/5 4/5 5/5
No. 2873 2889 2895
Phonetic
component		 番 番 番
Rime
group		 歌 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 播 飜 煩
Old
Chinese		 /*paːls/ /*pʰan/ /*ban/
Notes 釆聲，後作蹯

Definitions

番

  1. to take turns
  2. to repeat
  3. Classifier for times of actions. turn, time
  4. time, -fold
  5. kind, type
  6. Alternative form of 蕃 (fán, “to guard”).
  7. foreign people, other ethnic groups
  8. foreign country
  9. foreign, non-native
    番茄  ―  fānqié  ―  tomato [lit. foreign eggplant]
Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 番
Reading # 3/5
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 普官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰwan/
Li
Rong		 /pʰuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /pʰuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 番
Reading # 3/5
No. 2878
Phonetic
component		 番
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 潘
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰaːn/

Definitions

番

  1. A surname​.
  2. Only used in 番禺 (Pānyú).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

番

  1. A surname​.
  2. Only used in 番番 (pópó).

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 番
Reading # 4/5
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 博禾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /puɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /puɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /puɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pwa/
Li
Rong		 /puɑ/
Wang
Li		 /puɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /puɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bō
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 番
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bō
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pa ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤar/
English martial

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 番
Reading # 1/5
No. 2871
Phonetic
component		 番
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 波
Old
Chinese		 /*paːl/

Definitions

番

  1. Only used in 番番 (bōbō).

Japanese

Kanji

番

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Counter

番 ‎(hiragana ばん, romaji -ban)

  1. (sports) matches

Noun

番 ‎(hiragana ばん, romaji ban)

  1. one's turn (for example, when taking turns in a game)

Suffix

番 ‎(hiragana ばん, romaji -ban)

  1. (applied to numerals) -th: forms ordinal numerals such as 一番 "first", 二番 "second", and so on.

Korean

Hanja

番 • ‎(beon, ban, pa) (hangeul 번, 반, 파, revised beon, ban, pa, McCune-Reischauer pŏn, pan, p'a, Yale pen, pan, pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

番 (phen, phan, phiên, ba, bà)

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References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999

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