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芳

芳

Translingual

Han character

芳 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜竹尸 (TYHS), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱艹方)

  1. fragrant
  2. virtuous
  3. beautiful
  4. A (typically female) given name

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1021, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30736
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1479, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3184, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+82B3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 芳

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (方) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
縍 *paːŋ
榜 *paːŋʔ, *praːŋs, *braːŋ
蒡 *paːŋʔ, *braːŋ
牓 *paːŋʔ
螃 *paːŋʔ, *paːŋs, *baːŋ
搒 *paːŋs, *braːŋ
舫 *paːŋs, *paŋs
謗 *paːŋs
雱 *pʰaːŋ
磅 *pʰaːŋ, *pʰraːŋ
霶 *pʰaːŋ
滂 *pʰaːŋ
鎊 *pʰaːŋ
髈 *pʰaːŋʔ, *baːŋ
彷 *baːŋ, *pʰaŋʔ
趽 *baːŋ, *paŋ, *paŋs
房 *baːŋ, *baŋ
篣 *baːŋ, *braːŋ
騯 *baːŋ, *praːŋ, *braːŋ
傍 *baːŋ, *baːŋs
膀 *baːŋ
旁 *baːŋ
徬 *baːŋs
閍 *praːŋ
祊 *praːŋ
嗙 *praːŋ
方 *paŋ, *baŋ
汸 *paŋ
坊 *paŋ, *baŋ
邡 *paŋ, *pʰaŋs
枋 *paŋ
鈁 *paŋ
蚄 *paŋ
肪 *paŋ, *baŋ
鴋 *paŋ, *baŋ
牥 *paŋ
昉 *paŋʔ
瓬 *paŋʔ
放 *paŋʔ, *paŋs
倣 *paŋʔ
芳 *pʰaŋ
淓 *pʰaŋ
妨 *pʰaŋ, *pʰaŋs
紡 *pʰaŋʔ
仿 *pʰaŋʔ
髣 *pʰaŋʔ
鶭 *pʰaŋʔ
訪 *pʰaŋs
防 *baŋ, *baŋs
魴 *baŋ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 芳
Mandarin Beijing /fɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /faŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /fɑŋ¹³/
Jinan /faŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /faŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /faŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /faŋ⁵³/
Xining /fɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /fɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /fɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /fɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /faŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /faŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /faŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /fã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /faŋ³¹/
Hefei /fɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /fɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /xuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /fɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /fɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /fɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /fɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /huɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /fo³¹/
Tunxi /fau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fan³³/
Xiangtan /hɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /fɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /foŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /foŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fɔŋ⁵³/
Nanning /fɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /fɔŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hɔŋ⁵⁵/
/pʰaŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xɔŋ⁵⁴/
/pɔŋ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huaŋ³³/
/pʰaŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /faŋ²³/
Rime
Character 芳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 敷方切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰʉɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰʷiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰiuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰuaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /pʰiuaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭwaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰiwaŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 芳
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[pʰ]aŋ/
English fragrant

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 芳
Reading # 1/1
No. 3041
Phonetic
component		 方
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 芳
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰaŋ/

Definitions

芳

  1. fragrant

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 香 (“fragrant”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 香
Mandarin Beijing 香
Taiwan 香
Jinan 香
Xi'an 香
Wuhan 香
Chengdu 香
Yangzhou 香
Hefei 香
Cantonese Guangzhou 香
Hong Kong 香
Taishan 香
Yangjiang 香
Gan Nanchang 香
Hakka Meixian 香
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 香
Liudui (S. Sixian) 香
Hsinchu (Hailu) 香
Dongshi (Dabu) 香
Zhuolan (Raoping) 香
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 香
Jin Taiyuan 香
Min Bei Jian'ou 香
Min Dong Fuzhou 香
Min Nan Quanzhou 芳
Xiamen 芳
Zhangzhou 芳
Taipei 芳
Chaozhou 芳
Shantou 芳
Wu Suzhou 香
Wenzhou 香
Xiang Changsha 香
Shuangfeng 香

Japanese

Kanji

芳

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

芳 • ‎(bang) (hangeul 방, revised bang, McCune-Reischauer pang, Yale pang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

芳 (phương)

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