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焚

焚

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • 㷊 (The bottom (火) has been abbreviated into 灬)
  • 燓 (Based on the seal script form of the character)

Han character

焚 (radical 86 火+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木火 (DDF), four-corner 44809, composition ⿱林火)

References

  • KangXi: page 673, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19100
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1081, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2208, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+711A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 焚

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 焚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 符分切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨun/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biun/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bun/
Li
Rong		 /biuən/
Wang
Li		 /bĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fén
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 焚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fén
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjun ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]u[n]/
English burn (v.)

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 焚
Reading # 1/1
No. 3195
Phonetic
component		 焚
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 汾
Old
Chinese		 /*bun/

Definitions

焚

  1. to burn

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

焚

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

焚 • ‎(bun) (hangeul 분, McCune-Reischauer pun, Yale pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

焚 (phần, phàn, phừng)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 焚
Oracle bone script Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) - fire (火) + trees (木, duplicated into 林); hence the definition "burn". The seal script form has two diagonal crosses between the two trees (爻) symbolizng bushes.

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