煩

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See also: 烦
煩 U+7169, 煩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7169
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 煪 →

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order
13 strokes

煩 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火一月金 (FMBC), four-corner 91886, composition ⿰火頁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 678, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19229
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1089, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2216, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7169

Chinese

trad. 煩
simp. 烦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 煩
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (煩) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
煩 *ban
薠 *ban

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 火 (“fire”) + 頁 (“head”)

Pronunciation

Note:
  • huêng5 - Chaozhou;
  • huang5 - Shantou;
  • huam5 - Jieyang, Pontianak.
Rime
Character 煩
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 附袁切
Baxter bjon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/biuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/buan/
Li
Rong 		/biuɐn/
Wang
Li 		/bĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		faan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 煩
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		fán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bjon ›
Old
Chinese 		/*a/
English troubled

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 煩
Reading # 1/1
No. 2943
Phonetic
component 		煩
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		煩
Old
Chinese 		/*ban/

Definitions

煩

  1. agitated; restless; vexed; unhappy
    煩躁／烦躁  ―  fánzào  ―  agitated
    心裡很煩／心里很烦  ―  xīnlǐ hěn fán  ―  The heart is restless.
    你在煩什麼啊？／你在烦什么啊？  ―  Nǐ zài fán shénme a?  ―  What are you getting so annoyed about?
  2. to annoy; to bother
    你不要煩我好嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
    你不要烦我好吗？ [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ bùyào fán wǒ hǎo ma?
    Don't annoy me, okay?
  3. fed up; sick of
    這些話我都聽煩了。 [MSC, trad.]
    这些话我都听烦了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhèxiē huà wǒ dōu tīng fán le.
    I'm fed up with these words.
  4. numerous and jumbled; miscellaneous
  5. (polite) to trouble someone to do something
    有事相煩／有事相烦  ―  yǒushì xiàngfán  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

  • (to annoy):
  • (to trouble someone to do something):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

煩

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to worry
  2. annoying, worrying

Readings

Korean

Hanja

煩 (eumhun 번거로울 번 (beon'georoul beon))

  1. hanja form? of 번 (“bother, vex, trouble”)
  2. hanja form? of 번 (“troublesome”)

Old Japanese

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 煩 (MC bjon).

Phonogram

煩 (po2)

  1. Denotes phonographic syllable po2.

Further reading

Vietnamese

Han character

煩: Hán Nôm readings: phiền

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