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蟠

蟠

Translingual

Han character

蟠 (radical 142 虫+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹木田 (LIHDW), four-corner 52169)

  1. coil
  2. coiling, curling
  3. occupy

References

  • KangXi: page 1097, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33591
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1561, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2893, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+87E0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蟠

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蟠 蟠
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 元 (66) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 附袁切 薄官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bʉɐn/ /buɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bʷiɐn/ /bʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuɐn/ /buɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buan/ /bwan/
Li
Rong		 /biuɐn/ /buɑn/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwɐn/ /buɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯wɐn/ /bʱuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fán pán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蟠 蟠
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 pán pán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ba › ‹ ban ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ˤar/ /*[b]ˤar/
English curl (v.) curl (v.)

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 蟠 蟠
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2879 2903
Phonetic
component		 番 番
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 槃 煩
Old
Chinese		 /*baːn/ /*ban/

Definitions

蟠

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Compounds

  • 屈蟠
  • 泥蟠
  • 王母蟠桃
  • 虎踞龍蟠／虎踞龙蟠
  • 虯蟠／虬蟠
  • 蟠夔紋／蟠夔纹
  • 蟠曲
  • 蟠木
  • 蟠桃 (pántáo)
  • 蟠桃會／蟠桃会
  • 蟠虯紋／蟠虬纹
  • 蟠虺紋／蟠虺纹
  • 蟠螭紋／蟠螭纹

References

Japanese

Kanji

蟠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

蟠 • ‎(ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蟠 (bàn)

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