頒

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See also: 朌 and 颁
頒 U+9812, 頒
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Translingual

Han character

頒 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金竹一月金 (CHMBC), four-corner 81286, composition ⿰分頁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1401, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43378
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1917, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4362, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9812

Chinese

trad. 頒
simp. 颁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (分) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
扮 *prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ
盼 *pʰrɯːns
頒 *praːn, *bɯn
朌 *praːn, *bɯn
鳻 *praːn, *bɯn
份 *prɯn, *bɯns
汃 *pʰreːd, *prɯn
玢 *prɯn
邠 *prɯn
攽 *prɯn
砏 *prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn
貧 *brɯn
湓 *pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns
盆 *bɯːn
葐 *bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn
坌 *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
坋 *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
分 *pɯn, *bɯns
吩 *pɯn
粉 *pɯnʔ
黺 *pɯnʔ
芬 *pʰɯn
紛 *pʰɯn
衯 *pʰɯn
棻 *pʰɯn, *bɯn
氛 *pʰɯn, *bɯn
雰 *pʰɯn
忿 *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ
魵 *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
汾 *bɯn
羒 *bɯn
枌 *bɯn
棼 *bɯn
妢 *bɯn
梤 *bɯn
馚 *bɯn
鼢 *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
蚡 *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
弅 *bɯnʔ
秎 *bɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *praːn, *bɯn) : phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note: paan1 - variant (rare).
Rime
Character 頒
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 布還切
Baxter paen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠan/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚan/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/paɨn/
Li
Rong 		/pan/
Wang
Li 		/pan/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pan/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		baan1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 頒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pæn ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁ<r>ə/ (MC F!)
English distribute

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 頒
Reading # 1/2
No. 3130
Phonetic
component 		分
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		班
Old
Chinese 		/*praːn/

Definitions

頒

  1. to confer; to bestow; to grant; to present
    頒獎／颁奖  ―  bānjiǎng  ―  to present a prize
  2. to publish; to promulgate
  3. Used in 頒白／颁白.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 頒
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 符分切
Baxter bjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bɨun/
Pan
Wuyun 		/biun/
Shao
Rongfen 		/biuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/bun/
Li
Rong 		/biuən/
Wang
Li 		/bĭuən/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fan4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 頒
Reading # 2/2
No. 3169
Phonetic
component 		分
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		汾
Old
Chinese 		/*bɯn/

Definitions

頒

  1. † having a large head

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

頒

Kyūjitai

頒

Kanji

頒

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. distribute, partition

Readings

  • Go-on: へん (hen)、ぶん (bun)
  • Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)、ふん (fun)
  • Kun: わける (wakeru, 頒ける)、しく (shiku, 頒く)

Korean

Hanja

頒 • (ban, bun) (hangeul 반, 분, revised ban, bun, McCune–Reischauer pan, pun, Yale pan, pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頒: Hán Nôm readings: ban

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