辦

Translingual

Han character

辦 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜十大尸十 (YJKSJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛力辛)

Derived characters

• 𥷁

Related characters

• 办 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1251, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38655
• Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4042, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8FA6

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *breːns) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 力 (“strength”).

Etymology 1

Cognate with Tibetan བྲེལ་བ (brel ba, “to be employed; busy”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Definitions

辦

1. to deal with; to handle; to manage; to take care of

   沒辦法／没办法  ―  méibànfǎ  ―  there is no way to deal with this

   怎麼辦？／怎么办？  ―  Zěnmebàn?  ―  What do I do?

2. to prepare; to get something ready

   辦飯的／办饭的 [dialectal Mandarin]  ―  bànfànde   ―  (Wulian Mandarin) wife (literally, “the person who prepares meals”)

3. to process; to obtain (e.g. a visa/passport)

   辦證／办证  ―  bànzhèng  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   辦戶口／办户口  ―  bàn hùkǒu  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. to set up; to run
5. to bring to justice; to punish
6. (only in compounds) Short for 辦公室／办公室 (bàngōngshì, “office”).
7. (euphemistic) to kill off; to murder

   • 李開這人太壞，太霸道，惹急了老子找人把他辦了。 [MSC, trad.]
     李开这人太坏，太霸道，惹急了老子找人把他办了。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2005 January, 丁和 (Ding He), 《雇凶杀好友,55万元买断厅级高干的生命》, in 《法制与经济》 , →ISSN, issue 2005(01), page 10

     Lǐ Kāi zhè rén tài huài, tài bàdào, rě jí le lǎozi zhǎo rén bǎ tā bàn le.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 光頭得意洋洋：「你看不出個眉眼高低啊？去辦幾個人，你信不？」 [MSC, trad.]
     光头得意洋洋：「你看不出个眉眼高低啊？去办几个人，你信不？」 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2015 August 22, 刘振涛 (Liu Zhentao), 《阿P遭劫》, in 《故事会》, →ISSN, issue 590, page 60

     Guāngtóu déyìyángyáng: “Nǐ kàn bù chū ge méiyǎngāodī a? Qù bàn jǐge rén, nǐ xìn bù?”

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• (to deal with):

• (to kill off):

Compounds

References

• “辦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04106
• “Entry #11982”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

辦

1. (Cantonese, Southern Min) sample; specimen (Classifier: 個／个 c)
2. (Cantonese) template

Synonyms

• (sample): 樣本／样本 (yàngběn), 樣品／样品 (yàngpǐn)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. manage
2. do
3. handle
4. deal with

Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: つとめる (tsutomeru)

Korean

Hanja

辦 (eumhun 힘들일 판 (himdeuril pan))

1. manage
2. do
3. handle
4. deal with

Hanja

辦 (eum 변 (byeon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

辦: Hán Nôm readings: biện, bạn

1. (only in compound biện pháp) chữ Hán form of biện (“to handle, to do; to prepare”).

References