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紛
紛
See also: 纷
Translingual
Han character
紛 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火金尸竹 (VFCSH), four-corner 28927)
References
- KangXi: page 918, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27295
- Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3375, character 9
- Unihan data for U+7D1B
Chinese
| trad. | 紛 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 纷 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 紛
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|---|---|---|
| Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (分) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 扮 | *prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ |
| 盼 | *pʰrɯːns |
| 頒 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 朌 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 鳻 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 份 | *prɯn, *bɯns |
| 汃 | *pʰreːd, *prɯn |
| 玢 | *prɯn |
| 邠 | *prɯn |
| 攽 | *prɯn |
| 砏 | *prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn |
| 貧 | *brɯn |
| 湓 | *pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns |
| 盆 | *bɯːn |
| 葐 | *bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn |
| 坌 | *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns |
| 坋 | *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns |
| 分 | *pɯn, *bɯns |
| 吩 | *pɯn |
| 粉 | *pɯnʔ |
| 黺 | *pɯnʔ |
| 芬 | *pʰɯn |
| 紛 | *pʰɯn |
| 衯 | *pʰɯn |
| 棻 | *pʰɯn, *bɯn |
| 氛 | *pʰɯn, *bɯn |
| 雰 | *pʰɯn |
| 忿 | *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ |
| 魵 | *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 汾 | *bɯn |
| 羒 | *bɯn |
| 枌 | *bɯn |
| 棼 | *bɯn |
| 妢 | *bɯn |
| 梤 | *bɯn |
| 馚 | *bɯn |
| 鼢 | *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 蚡 | *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 弅 | *bɯnʔ |
| 秎 | *bɯns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰɯn) : semantic 糸 + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ
- Wade-Giles: fên1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fen
- IPA (key): /fən⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: fan1
- Yale: fān
- Cantonese Pinyin: fan1
- IPA (key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: hŭng
- IPA (key): /huŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: fen (T1)
- IPA (key): /fəɲ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 紛 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 滂 (2) |
| Final (韻) | 文 (59) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 撫文切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pʰɨun/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/pʰiun/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/pʰiuən/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/pʰun/ |
| Li Rong |
/pʰiuən/ |
| Wang Li |
/pʰĭuən/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pʰi̯uən/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
fēn |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 紛 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3155 |
| Phonetic component |
分 |
| Rime group |
文 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
芬 |
| Old Chinese |
/*pʰɯn/ |
| Notes | 撫由府校改 |
Definitions
紛
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
紛
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
紛 • (bun) (hangeul 분, revised bun, McCune-Reischauer pun, Yale pun)
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Vietnamese
Han character
紛 (phân)
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