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Translingual

Han character

(radical 160 +9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜十大尸十 (YJKSJ), four-corner 00441, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1251, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38655
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4042, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8FA6

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*praːn
*breːns
*breːns
*breːns, *brenʔ
*prenʔ, *brenʔ
*brenʔ
*beːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *breːns) : phonetic  (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic  (strength).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pan⁵¹/
Harbin /pan⁵³/
Tianjin /pan⁵³/
Jinan /pã²¹/
Qingdao /pã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pan³¹²/
Xi'an /pã⁴⁴/
Xining /pã²¹³/
Yinchuan /pan¹³/
Lanzhou /pɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /pan²¹³/
Wuhan /pan³⁵/
Chengdu /pan¹³/
Guiyang /pan²¹³/
Kunming /pã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /paŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /pæ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /pæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /be²³/
Suzhou /be̞³¹/
Hangzhou /bẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /ba²²/
Hui Shexian /pʰɛ²²/
Tunxi /pʰuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pan⁵⁵/
/pan¹¹/
Xiangtan /ban²¹/
Gan Nanchang /pʰan²¹/
Hakka Meixian /pʰan⁵³/
Taoyuan /pʰɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pan²²/
Nanning /pan²²/
Hong Kong /pan²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pan²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /paiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /paiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰõi³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbaŋ³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (73)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠɛnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚænH/
Shao
Rongfen
/bænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bəɨnH/
Li
Rong
/bɛnH/
Wang
Li
/bænH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱănH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ bɛnH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˤren-s/
English manage, deal with

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. 782
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*breːns/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to deal with; to handle; to manage; to take care of
  2. to prepare; to get something ready
  3. to process; to obtain (e.g. a visa/passport)
  4. to set up; to run
  5. to bring to justice; to punish
  6. Short for 辦公室办公室 (bàngōngshì, “office”).

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. manage
  2. do
  3. handle
  4. deal with

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pan, byeon) (hangeul , 변, revised pan, byeon, McCune-Reischauer p'an, pyŏn, Yale phan, pyen)

  1. manage
  2. do
  3. handle
  4. deal with

Vietnamese

Han character

(biện, bạn)

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