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Translingual

Han character

(radical 163 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手十弓中 (QJNL), four-corner 57027, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1269, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39310
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1768, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3756, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+90A6

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *proːŋ) : phonetic  (OC *pʰoŋ) + semantic .

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /paŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /pɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /paŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /paŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /paŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /paŋ²¹/
Xining /pɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /pɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /pɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /paŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /paŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /paŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /pã̠/
Nanjing /paŋ³¹/
Hefei /pɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /pɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /pɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /pɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /pɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /pɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /pɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /puɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /pɔ³¹/
Tunxi /pau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pan³³/
Xiangtan /pɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /pɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /paŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /pɑŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pɔŋ⁵³/
Nanning /pɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pɔŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /paŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pouŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /paŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbaŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (9)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠʌŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚɔŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/pɔŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/paɨwŋ/
Li
Rong
/pɔŋ/
Wang
Li
/pɔŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pɔŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ pæwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˤroŋ/
English country

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. 3200
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*proːŋ/

Definitions

  1. nation, country, state

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. home country (usually refers to Japan)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana くに, romaji kuni)

  1. Alternative spelling of

Korean

Hanja

(bang) (hangeul , revised bang, McCune-Reischauer pang, Yale pang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(vâng, bang, bương)

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