鵬

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See also: 鹏
鵬 U+9D6C, 鵬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D6C
← 鵫
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鵭 →

Translingual

Han character

鵬 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月月竹火 (BBHF), four-corner 77227, composition ⿰朋鳥)

  1. fabulous bird of enormous size

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1492, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47005
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2022, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4641, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+9D6C

Chinese

trad. 鵬
simp. 鹏
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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
崩 *pɯːŋ
堋 *pɯːŋs, *pʰɯːŋ, *bɯːŋ
漰 *pʰɯːŋ
倗 *pʰɯːŋʔ, *bɯːŋ, *bɯːŋs
朋 *bɯːŋ
鵬 *bɯːŋ
棚 *bɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
鬅 *bɯːŋ
掤 *pɯŋ
淜 *bɯŋ
輣 *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
繃 *prɯːŋ, *prɯːŋ
弸 *pʰrɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : phonetic 朋 (OC *bɯːŋ, “phoenix”) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)

Etymology

This has been related to 風 (OC *plum, “wind”) (Schuessler, 2007) and also by Wang (1982) to 鳳 (OC *bums, “male fenghuang”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鵬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 登 (129)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 步崩切
Baxter bong
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bəŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bəŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/bəŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/bəŋ/
Li
Rong 		/bəŋ/
Wang
Li 		/bəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱəŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		péng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		pang4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鵬
Reading # 1/1
No. 9665
Phonetic
component 		朋
Rime
group 		蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		朋
Old
Chinese 		/*bɯːŋ/

Definitions

鵬

  1. (Chinese mythology) peng (enormous bird)

Synonyms

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Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鵬):
  • → Korean: 붕(鵬) (bung)
  • → Vietnamese: bằng (鵬)

Japanese

Shinjitai 鵬
Kyūjitai
鵬󠄁
鵬+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
鵬󠄃
鵬+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

鵬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. peng (fabled large bird)

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鵬
ほう
Jinmeiyō
kan’on
 鵬 on Japanese Wikipedia
 Peng (mythology) on Wikipedia

From Middle Chinese 鵬 (MC bong).

Pronunciation

Noun

鵬(ほう) or 鵬(ぼう) • (hō or bō) 

  1. (Chinese mythology) peng: a fabled large bird thought to have wings measuring 3,000 li and can soar up to 90,000 li
    Synonym: 大鳥 (ōtori)
Idioms
See also

Proper noun

鵬(ほう) • (Hō) 

  1. a male or female given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鵬
おおとり
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鵬 – see the following entry.
【おおとり】
any large bird (crane, stork, swan, etc.)
any majestic bird of legend (peng, fenghuang, phoenix, roc, etc.)
鵬: a surname
Alternative spellings
大鳥, 鳳, 鴻
(This term, 鵬, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2409 (paper), page 1256 (digital)
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鵬 (eumhun 대붕 붕 (daebung bung))

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Vietnamese

Han character

鵬: Hán Nôm readings: bằng, bành

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