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斑

斑

Translingual

Han character

斑 (radical 67 文+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土卜大土 (MGYKG), four-corner 1111₄, composition ⿴玨文)

References

KangXi: page 477, character 11

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13470

Dae Jaweon: page 835, character 11

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1123, character 4

Unihan data for U+6591

Chinese

simp. and trad.		斑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (班) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
班	*praːn
斑	*praːn

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 𤤴 ‎(“jade”) + 文 ‎(“stripe”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baan¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: bān
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
  - Wade-Giles: pan¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
  - IPA ^(key): /pa̠n⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: baan¹
  - Yale: bāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baan¹
  - IPA ^(key): /pɑːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pân
  - Hakka Romanization System: ban´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ban¹
  - IPA: /pan²⁴/

Middle Chinese: /pˠan/▼

Rime
Character	斑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	布還切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠan/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨn/
Li Rong	/pan/
Wang Li	/pan/
Bernard Karlgren	/pan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bān

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*pˤran/

(Zhengzhang): /*praːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	斑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bān
Middle Chinese	‹ pæn ›
Old Chinese	/*pˤran/
English	variegated
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	斑
Reading #	1/1
No.	225
Phonetic component	班
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	班
Old Chinese	/*praːn/

Definitions

斑

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Compounds

斑馬／斑马 (bānmǎ)

斑鳩／斑鸠 (bānjiū)

Japanese

Kanji

斑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: へん (hen)

Kan’on: はん (han)

Kun: まだら (madara), ぶち (buchi), ふ (fu)

Korean

Hanja

斑 • ‎(ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

斑 (ban)

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