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Translingual

Han character

(radical 50 +14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土戈竹日月 (GIHAB), four-corner 44227, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 337, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9125
  • Dae Jaweon: page 644, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 756, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5E6B

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*paːŋ
*paːŋ
*poŋ, *poŋs
*poŋ, *poŋs
*poŋ
*poŋ
*poŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *paːŋ) : phonetic  (OC *poŋ, *poŋs) + semantic  (silks).

The semantic element 帛 refers to the original meaning, "the upper part of a shoe" (鞋幫).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/pɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/paŋ/
Li
Rong
/pɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/pɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bāng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 3251
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*paːŋ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. group; gang
  2. to help; to assist; to aid

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bang)

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