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Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

(radical 124 +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹田尸一一 (HWSMM), four-corner 27620, composition)

  1. fly
  2. turn over, toss
  3. change
  4. reverse
  5. cross over
  6. return
  7. browse, look over
  8. translate
  9. study

References

  • KangXi: page 959, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28814
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1406, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3358, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7FFB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*paːl, *baːl
*paːl
*paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
*paːls
*paːls
*baːl
*pʰaːn
*baːn, *ban
*baːn
*pan, *ban
*pan, *pʰan
*pan
*pan, *ban
*pan, *ban
*pan
*panʔ
*pʰan
*pʰan
*pʰan
*pʰan, *ban
*pʰan, *ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰan) : phonetic  (OC *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban) + semantic  (wings) – to flutter.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /fan⁵⁵/
Harbin /fan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /fan²¹/
Jinan /fã²¹³/
Qingdao /fã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /fan²⁴/
Xi'an /fã²¹/
Xining /fã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /fan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /fɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /fan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /fan⁵⁵/
Chengdu /fan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /fan⁵⁵/
Kunming /fã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /faŋ³¹/
Hefei /fæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /fæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /xuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /fæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /fe⁵³/
Suzhou /fe̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /fẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /fa³³/
Hui Shexian /fɛ³¹/
Tunxi /fuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fan³³/
Xiangtan /ɸan³³/
Gan Nanchang /fan⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /fan⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /fɑn²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fan⁵³/
Nanning /fɛn⁵⁵/
/fan⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /fan⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /huan⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huaŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xuaiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huaŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /huaŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰiuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰuan/
Li
Rong
/pʰiuɐn/
Wang
Li
/pʰĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰi̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2888
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰan/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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  • flip, turn over
  • wave, flutter
  • a change of mind

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(beon) (hangeul , revised beon, McCune-Reischauer pŏn, Yale pen)

  1. to fly
  2. to flutter

Vietnamese

Han character

(phiên)

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