彭

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彭 U+5F6D, 彭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F6D
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 彮 →

Translingual

Han character

彭 (Kangxi radical 59, 彡+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土廿竹竹竹 (GTHHH), four-corner 42122, composition ⿰壴彡)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 364, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10003
  • Dae Jaweon: page 683, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 855, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5F6D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 彭
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彭
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (彭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
澎 *pʰraːŋ, *braːŋ
彭 *braːŋ
膨 *braːŋ, *braːŋs
蟚 *braːŋ
蟛 *braːŋ
憉 *braːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 壴 (“drum”) + 彡 (“visualization of the sound of drumming”) – sound of drumming.

Shuowen considers it to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) where 彡 (OC *sroːm, *slom) acts as the phonetic component.

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • phîⁿ/phêⁿ - vernacular (surname);
  • phêng - literary.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 彭
Mandarin Beijing /pʰəŋ³⁵/
Harbin /pʰəŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /pʰəŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /pʰəŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /pʰəŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰəŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /pʰəŋ²⁴/
Xining /pʰə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /pʰəŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /pʰə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /pʰɤŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰən²¹³/
Chengdu /pʰən³¹/
Guiyang /pʰen²¹/
Kunming /pʰoŋ¹/
Nanjing /pʰən²⁴/
Hefei /pʰəŋ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /pʰəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /pʰə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /bã²³/
Suzhou /bən¹³/
Hangzhou /boŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /biɛ³¹/
Hui Shexian /pʰʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /pʰan⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /pən¹³/
Xiangtan /bən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /pʰɑŋ²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /pʰaŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /pʰɑŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰaŋ²¹/
Nanning /pʰaŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /pʰaŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pʰiŋ³⁵/
/pʰĩ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pʰaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pʰaŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /pʰẽ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /foŋ³¹/
/fɛ³¹/
Rime
Character 彭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 庚 (109)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 薄庚切
Baxter baeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bˠæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bᵚaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/baŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/baɨjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/bɐŋ/
Wang
Li 		/bɐŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/bʱɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		péng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		pang4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		péng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bæng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ˁraŋ/
English (place name)

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 彭
Reading # 1/1
No. 9681
Phonetic
component 		彭
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		彭
Old
Chinese 		/*braːŋ/

Definitions

彭

  1. (onomatopoeia, obsolete) sound of drumming
  2. Name of an ancient country.
  3. a surname
    彭德懷／彭德怀  ―  Péng Déhuái  ―  Peng Dehuai (Chinese military leader)

Compounds

Descendants

  • → English: Peng, P'eng, Pang, Pee

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

彭

  1. Alternative form of 旁 (“side; near”)

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

彭

  1. Only used in 彭彭.

Japanese

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Kanji

彭

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ほう (hō)
  • Kun: ゆく (yuku)、みち (michi)、さかん (sakan)
  • Nanori: みつる (mitsuru)

Korean

Hanja

彭 • (paeng, bang) (hangeul 팽, 방, revised paeng, bang, McCune–Reischauer p'aeng, pang, Yale phayng, pang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

彭: Hán Việt readings: bành (蒲(bồ)庚(canh)切(thiết))[1][2][3][4][5]
彭: Nôm readings: bành[1][2][3][4][5][6], phình[1]

  1. Chữ Hán form of Bành (“a surname from Chinese.”).
  2. Nôm form of bành.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Trần (2004).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bonet (1899).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Génibrel (1898).
  6. ^ Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
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