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Translingual
Han character
斑 (Kangxi radical 67, 文+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土卜大土 (MGYKG), four-corner 11114, composition ⿲𤣩文王 or ⿴玨文)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 477, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13470
- Dae Jaweon: page 835, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1123, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6591
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 班
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*praːn
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| 斑
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*praːn
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Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 玨 (“jade”) + 文 (“stripe”).
Etymology 1
Either the same etymon as 班 (OC *praːn) or related to 駁 (OC *praːwɢ).
Pronunciation
Note:
- bang1 - literary;
- boin1 - vernacular.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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斑
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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bān
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ pæn ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*pˁran/
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| English
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variegated
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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斑
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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225
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Phonetic
component
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班
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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班
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Old
Chinese
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/*praːn/
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Definitions
斑
- spot; stripe
- spotted; striped; mottled
- 斑馬／斑马 ― bānmǎ ― zebra (literally, “striped horse”)
- (literary, of hair) grey
- (obsolete) to cut; to split
- (Cantonese) grouper (Classifier: 條／条 c)
- 粟米斑腩飯／粟米斑腩饭 [Cantonese] ― suk1 mai5 baan1 naam5 faan6 ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- a surname: Ban
Compounds
Etymology 2
References
Japanese
Kanji
斑
(common “Jōyō” kanji)
- spot
- blemish
- speck
- patches
Readings
Etymology 1
| For pronunciation and definitions of 斑 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 斑, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 斑 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 斑, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of 斑 – see the following entry: ふ
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(The following entry is uncreated: ふ.)
Korean
Hanja
斑 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune–Reischauer pan, Yale pan)
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Vietnamese
Han character
斑: Hán Nôm readings: ban
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