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Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹水十 (YHEJ), four-corner 37304, composition)

  1. come upon, happen to meet
  2. flatter
  3. a Chinese surname

References

  • KangXi: page 1258, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38901
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1746, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3844, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9022

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*proːŋ
*proːŋ
*proːŋ
*pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
*broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
*broːŋʔ
*broːŋʔ
*broːŋʔ
*poːŋʔ
*poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
*poːŋʔ, *boŋs
*boːŋ
*boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
*boːŋ
*boːŋ
*boːŋ
*boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
*boːŋʔ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ
*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
*pʰoŋʔ
*boŋ
*boŋ, *boŋs
*boŋ
*boŋ, *boŋs
*boŋʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/bioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/bioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buawŋ/
Li
Rong
/bioŋ/
Wang
Li
/bĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
féng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
féng péng
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjowng › ‹ buwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*[C.b](r)oŋ/ /*bˤoŋ/
English encounter (v.) sound of the drum

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. 3234
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*boŋ/

Verb

  1. to meet with
    相逢 (xiāngféng)

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(bong) (hangeul , revised bong, McCune-Reischauer pong, Yale pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phùng, buồng)

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