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Translingual

Han character

(radical 96 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一土戈中土 (MGILG), four-corner 11114)

References

  • KangXi: page 731, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20976
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1142, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1113, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+73ED

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 𤤴 (two jade) +  (knife) – to cut jade to pieces with knife.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (69)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bān
Middle
Chinese
‹ pæn ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˤ<r>an/
English divide, distribute

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 # 1/1
No. 224
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*praːn/

Definitions

  1. (school) class; group; grade
  2. (military) squad
  3. shift; workshift
  4. Classifier for a group of people.
  5. Classifier for scheduled forms of transportation, such as flights and trains.

Usage notes

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. group, party, section

Readings

Suffix

(hiragana はん, romaji -han)

  1. group, party
  2. (military) section

Korean

Hanja

(ban) (hangeul , revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ban, băn)

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