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Translingual

Han character

(radical 108 +10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹水月廿 (HEBT), four-corner 27107, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 796, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23036
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1211, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2568, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+76E4

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*praːn
*praːn, *paːn, *baːn
*baːl, *baːn
*baːl, *baːn
*paːn
*baːn
*baːn
*baːn
*baːn
*baːn
*baːn
*baːn
*baːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *baːn) : phonetic  (OC *praːn, *paːn, *baːn) + semantic .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/bʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/buɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bwan/
Li
Rong
/buɑn/
Wang
Li
/buɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
pán
Middle
Chinese
‹ ban ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˤan/
English tray, basin

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. 232
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*baːn/
Notes

Definitions

  1. tray; plate; dish
  2. to examine
  3. (computing) hard drive
    /    wǎngpán   cloud drive

See also

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Suffix

(hiragana ばん, romaji -ban)

  1. disc, clock face
  2. tray
  3. board, grid

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bàn, mâm)

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