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返
返
Translingual
Han character
返 (radical 162 辵+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹水 (YHE), four-corner 31304, composition ⿺辶反)
References
- KangXi: page 1254, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38758
- Dae Jaweon: page 1737, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3820, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8FD4
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
返 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms |
翻 (faan1) Cantonese 番 (faan1) Cantonese |
|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (反) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 扳 | *praːn, *pʰraːn |
| 板 | *praːnʔ |
| 版 | *praːnʔ |
| 瓪 | *praːnʔ, *paːnʔ |
| 昄 | *praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ |
| 鈑 | *praːnʔ |
| 蝂 | *praːnʔ |
| 眅 | *pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ |
| 阪 | *braːnʔ, *panʔ |
| 魬 | *braːnʔ |
| 粄 | *paːnʔ |
| 反 | *panʔ, *pʰan |
| 返 | *panʔ |
| 坂 | *panʔ |
| 畈 | *pans |
| 販 | *pans |
| 汳 | *pʰans |
| 飯 | *bonʔ, *bons |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˇ
- Wade-Giles: fan3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faan
- IPA (key): /fa̠n²¹⁴/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: faan2, faan1
- Yale: fáan, fāan
- Cantonese Pinyin: faan2, faan1
- IPA (key): /fɑːn³⁵/, /fɑːn⁵⁵/
- Note: faan2 - literary; faan1 - colloquial.
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: fan1
- IPA (key): /fan³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fán
- Hakka Romanization System: fan`
- Hagfa Pinyim: fan3
- IPA: /fan³¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoán
- Tâi-lô: huán
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoarn
- IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /huan⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 返 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 元 (66) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 府遠切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pʉɐnX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/pʷiɐnX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/piuɐnX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/puanX/ |
| Li Rong |
/piuɐnX/ |
| Wang Li |
/pĭwɐnX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pi̯wɐnX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
fǎn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 返 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
fǎn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pjonX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*Cə.panʔ/ |
| English | return |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 返 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2969 |
| Phonetic component |
反 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
反 |
| Old Chinese |
/*panʔ/ |
Definitions
返
- to return to
- (Cantonese) to go to
- (Cantonese) back
- 擠返 / 挤返 [Cantonese] ― zai1faan1 [Jyutping] ― to put back; to return
- 換返件衫 / 换返件衫 [Cantonese] ― wun6faan1 gin6 saam1 [Jyutping] ― to change back one's clothes
- 打返 [Cantonese] ― daa2faan1 [Jyutping] ― to return a hit
- 救唔返 [Cantonese] ― gau3 m4faan1 [Jyutping] ― unable to be saved (unsalvageable, beyond hope, etc.)
- 諗返舊陣時 / 谂返旧阵时 [Cantonese] ― nam2faan1 gau6 zan6 si4-2 [Jyutping] ― thinking back to older times
- 去返轉頭 / 去返转头 [Cantonese] ― heoi3faan1 zyun3 tau4 [Jyutping] ― to go back; to turn around
- 搵返 / 揾返 [Cantonese] ― wan2faan1 [Jyutping] ― to find (something that was lost)
- 整返好 [Cantonese] ― zing2faan1 hou2 [Jyutping] ― to repair; to fix
- 好返 [Cantonese] ― hou2faan1 [Jyutping] ― to recover (from an illness)
Synonyms
- (to return):
| Dialectal synonyms of 回 (“to return; to come or go back to”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 回、歸 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 回 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 回 |
| Taiwan | 回 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 返 |
| Hong Kong | 返 | |
| Taishan | 返 | |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 轉 |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 歸 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 轉 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 轉 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 轉 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 轉 | |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 轉 |
| Xiamen | 轉 | |
| Zhangzhou | 轉 | |
| Taipei | 轉 | |
| Kaohsiung | 轉 | |
| Tainan | 轉 | |
| Taichung | 轉 | |
| Yilan | 轉 | |
| Lukang | 轉 | |
| Sanxia | 轉 | |
| Kinmen | 轉 | |
| Magong | 轉 | |
| Hsinchu | 轉 | |
| Chaozhou | 轉 | |
| Shantou | 轉 | |
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
返 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)
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Vietnamese
Han character
返 (phản)
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