Definify.com

Definition 2024


See also:

Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹木田 (THDW), four-corner 44609)

  1. foreign things

References

  • KangXi: page 1056, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31906
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3293, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+8543

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*paːl, *baːl
*paːl
*paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
*paːls
*paːls
*baːl
*pʰaːn
*baːn, *ban
*baːn
*pan, *ban
*pan, *pʰan
*pan
*pan, *ban
*pan, *ban
*pan
*panʔ
*pʰan
*pʰan
*pʰan
*pʰan, *ban
*pʰan, *ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban
*ban

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (1)
Final () (66) (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bʉɐn/ /pʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun
/bʷiɐn/ /pʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen
/biuɐn/ /piuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buan/ /puan/
Li
Rong
/biuɐn/ /piuɐn/
Wang
Li
/bĭwɐn/ /pĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯wɐn/ /pi̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fán fān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fān fán
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjon › ‹ bjon ›
Old
Chinese
/*par/ /*[b]ar/
English hedge, screen, fence luxuriant (growth)

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 2881 2896
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pan/ /*ban/

Definitions

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

See also


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. grow thick and full (of plant growth)
  2. multiply, increase

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(beon) (hangeul , revised beon, McCune-Reischauer pŏn, Yale pen)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.