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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木木竹弓戈 (DDHNI), four-corner 44217, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 531, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14888
  • Dae Jaweon: page 919, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1210, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+68B5

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*b·ruːm
*b·uːm
*pʰomʔ
*pʰoms, *bum
*bom
*bom, *boms
*bom, *boms
*bomʔ
*bloms, *bum
*boːŋ, *bum
*plum, *plums
*plum
*plum
*plum
*plum
*plum
*plum
*plums
*blum
*blum
*bums

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (3)
Final () (2) (146)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɨuŋ/ /bɨɐmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/biuŋ/ /biɐmH/
Shao
Rongfen
/biuŋ/ /biɐmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buwŋ/ /buamH/
Li
Rong
/biuŋ/ /biɐmH/
Wang
Li
/bĭuŋ/ /bĭwɐmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯uŋ/ /bʱi̯wɐmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
féng fàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2918 2932
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bloms/ /*bum/
Notes

Definitions

  1. Brahma
  2. Buddhist, Sanskrit, Indian (especially as an attributive prefixing element in compounds)

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
ぼん
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ぼん, romaji bon)

  1. Abbreviation of 梵語.

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(beom) (hangeul , revised beom, McCune-Reischauer pŏm, Yale pem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phạn, phạm)

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