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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Han character

(radical 37 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手大手 (QKQ), four-corner 50503)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 251, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5894
  • Dae Jaweon: page 511, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 531, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5949

See also


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /fəŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /fəŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /fəŋ⁵³/
Jinan /fəŋ²¹/
Qingdao /fəŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /fəŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /fəŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /fə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /fəŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /fə̃n⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /fɤŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /foŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /foŋ¹³/
Guiyang /foŋ²¹³/
Kunming /foŋ²¹²/
Nanjing /fən⁴⁴/
Hefei /fəŋ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /fəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /fə̃ŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /voŋ²³/
Suzhou /voŋ³¹/
Hangzhou /voŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦoŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /fʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /fan⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /xoŋ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸən⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /fuŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fuŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /fuŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /foŋ²²/
Nanning /fuŋ²²/
Hong Kong /foŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hɔŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /houŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hoŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /foŋ³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɨoŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/bioŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/bioŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buawŋX/
Li
Rong
/bioŋX/
Wang
Li
/bĭwoŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯woŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fèng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fèng fèng
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjowngX › ‹ phjowngX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-pʰ(r)oŋʔ/ /*pʰ(r)oŋʔ/
English present (v.) with both hands hold with both hands; to present; receive

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. 3239
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*boŋʔ/

Definitions

  1. to offer (tribute)
  2. receive
  3. serve
  4. to respect

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. observance

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phụng, vụng)

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