繃

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See also: 綳 and 绷
繃 U+7E43, 繃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E43
← 繂
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 繄 →

Translingual

Han character

繃 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火山月月 (VFUBB), four-corner 22927, composition ⿰糹崩)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 937, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27852
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1376, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3443, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7E43

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 繃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
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

Etymology 1

trad. 繃/綳
simp. 绷
alternative forms 䙖
絣／𰬔
䙀 (sling)

Pronunciation

Note:
  • piⁿ/peⁿ - vernacular;
  • png/peng - literary.
Rime
Character 繃
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 耕 (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 北萌切
Baxter peang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pəɨjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/pɛŋ/
Wang
Li 		/pæŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bēng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bang1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 繃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bēng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pɛng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁrəŋ/
English to bind around

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 繃 繃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9674 9679
Phonetic
component 		朋 朋
Rime
group 		蒸 蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		繃 繃
Old
Chinese 		/*prɯːŋ/ /*prɯːŋ/

Definitions

繃

  1. to stretch; to draw firmly; to strap
  2. to brace; to taut
  3. (of an object) to spring up; to bounce
  4. (literary, or in compounds, crafts) embroidery frame
  5. (literary, or in compounds) bed frame
  6. sling, piece of cloth used to carry a baby on one's back
  7. (dialectal) to swindle; to cheat
  8. (Internet slang) Short for 繃不住／绷不住 (bēngbùzhù, “to burst out laughing”).

Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad. 繃/綳
simp. 绷
alternative forms 掹 Cantonese

Pronunciation

Definitions

繃

  1. to strain one's muscles
  2. to pull one's face
  3. (Cantonese) to stretch, to set up (a mosquito net, a banner, etc)
  4. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 掹 (“to pull”)

Synonyms

  • (to stiffen one's face): 板 (bǎn)

Compounds

Etymology 3

trad. 繃/綳
simp. 绷
alternative forms 迸

Pronunciation

Definitions

繃

  1. (chiefly Beijing and Southwestern Mandarin, Jin) to split open; to crack; alternative form of 迸 (bèng)

Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 4

trad. 繃/綳
simp. 绷
alternative forms 崩
嘣

Some compounds are attested at least since Ming dynasty. May be related to 綁／绑 (bǎng) (in 緊綁綁／紧绑绑) used in Yuan era plays.

Mandarin dialects generally use reduplicated 邦 (bāng) instead (e.g. in 硬邦邦 (yìngbāngbāng)), also spelled 梆 (bāng) or 幫／帮 (bāng). See also Hokkien 迸 (piàng) (in 硬迸迸 (ngē-piàng-piàng), 緊迸迸／紧迸迸 (kín-piàng-piàng), etc.).

very; terribly
Same as above, but without reduplication. Used prepositively in a few collocations. Most Standard Chinese dictionaries nominally assign the bèng reading to this sense and merge it with Etymology 3, but Northeastern Mandarin and Xiang dialects where it is actually used have the dark level tone for it (corresponding to Beijing Mandarin bēng). See also 迸 (bèng, “(dialectal Mandarin) very dry; crisp; brittle”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

繃

  1. (chiefly Wu, Cantonese, dialectal Mandarin, in reduplication) intensifier used in ideophones
  2. (Wu, Xiang, dialectal Mandarin) very; terribly

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

繃

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ひょう (hyō)
  • Kan-on: ほう (hō)
  • Kun: たばねる (tabaneru, 繃ねる)、つかね (tsukane)、まく (maku)

Korean

Hanja

繃 • (bung) (hangeul 붕, revised bung, McCune–Reischauer pung, Yale pung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

繃: Hán Nôm readings: banh, băng, bắng

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