販

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See also: 贩
販 U+8CA9, 販
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CA9
← 貨
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 貪 →

Translingual

Han character

販 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月金竹水 (BCHE), four-corner 61847, composition ⿰貝反)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1205, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36679
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3627, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8CA9

Chinese

trad. 販
simp. 贩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 販
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (反) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
扳 *praːn, *pʰraːn
板 *praːnʔ
版 *praːnʔ
瓪 *praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄 *praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑 *praːnʔ
蝂 *praːnʔ
眅 *pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪 *braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬 *braːnʔ
粄 *paːnʔ
反 *panʔ, *pʰan
返 *panʔ
坂 *panʔ
畈 *pans
販 *pans
汳 *pʰans
飯 *bonʔ, *bons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pans) : semantic 貝 (“cowry”) + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Etymology

The exoactive of 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan, “to return, lit. "to make someone return"”) (Schuessler, 2007).

STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *par (“to trade; to buy; to sell”), from which Tibetan ཕར (phar, “interest (on money); exchange”) is derived.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • hoàn - literary;
  • phòaⁿ - vernacular.
Note:
  • huang3 - Shantou;
  • huêng3 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 販
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 方願切
Baxter pjonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/puanH/
Li
Rong 		/piuɐnH/
Wang
Li 		/pĭwɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pi̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		faan3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 販
Reading # 1/1
No. 2973
Phonetic
component 		反
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		販
Old
Chinese 		/*pans/

Definitions

販

  1. to deal in; to trade in; to traffic
  2. peddler; hawker; street merchant

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

販

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. marketing
  2. sell
  3. trade

Readings

  • Go-on: ほん (hon)
  • Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
  • Kun: あきなう (akinau, 販う)

Korean

Hanja

販 • (pan) (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune–Reischauer p'an, Yale phan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

販: Hán Nôm readings: phiến, phán

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