泛

泛 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 水+4 in mainland China and Japanese, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 水竹戈人 (EHIO), four-corner 3213₇, composition ⿰氵乏)

• 𭈠, 𣓦, 𥁷

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 616, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17298
• Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1569, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6CDB

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰoms, *bob) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 乏 (OC *bob).

Sino-Tibetan. Compare Tibetan འབྱམ ('byam, “to flow over; to diffuse”) (Bodman, 1980).

泛

1. ^† to float on water; to drift
2. to spread out; to be suffused with
3. to flood; to overflow
4. superficial; non-specific
5. extensive; general; pan-
6. ^† careless; reckless

• (general):

From 覂 (OC *poŋʔ).

泛

1. ^† to turn over; to topple over
2. ^† to be destroyed; to be defeated; to fall

泛

1. ^‡ The sound of water.

• “泛”, 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), A02181

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: ふう (fū)、ほん (hon)
• Kan-on: はん (han)、ほう (hō)
• Kun: うかぶ (ukabu, 泛ぶ)、こぼれる (koboreru, 泛る)

This character is not a modern Japanese character. It appears mostly in news reports of China or Taiwan issues. The character 汎 is the modern Japanese character which parallels this Chinese character in usage, such as in reports about the Pan-Blue Alliance written as 泛藍連盟 in Japanese news reports.

泛 • (beom, bong) (hangeul 범, 봉, revised beom, bong, McCune–Reischauer pŏm, pong, Yale pem, pong)

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泛: Hán Nôm readings: phiếm, phím, mẹp, phám

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