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See also:
U+80D6, 胖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-80D6

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
9 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 130, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月火手 (BFQ), four-corner 79250, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 978, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29381
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1430, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2063, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+80D6

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *pʰaːns) : semantic + phonetic (OC *paːns).

Etymology 1

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms
Min Nan vernacular
Min Nan vernacular

According to STEDT, possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-bʷam ~ s-bʷap (to swell; swollen, fat, thick; rounded part, mountain, hill). Cognates include (OC *bɯn, *bɯnʔ, “bulge, mound”), possibly (OC *boːŋ, *bum, “luxuriant growth”), and, outside of Sinitic, Tibetan སྦོམ་ (sbom, thick, bulky, fat). A more distant cognate is Burmese ဝမ်း (wam:, belly).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • phòng - vernacular;
  • phàng - literary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 253
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰaːns/
Notes

Definitions

  1. (of a person) fat
Usage notes
  • In northern varieties, including Standard Mandarin, (pàng) is usually used for people, and animals are described as (féi). This distinction is not seen in southern varieties, such as Cantonese, Hakka, and Min.
Synonyms
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of fat): (shòu, “skinny”)

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. comfortable; at ease
    心廣體心广体  ―  xīnguǎngtǐpán  ―  comfortable, fit and happy

Compounds

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“bread”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. fat, plump
  2. abundant

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

(ゆたか) (Yutaka

  1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

(ban) (hangeul , revised ban, McCune–Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: bàn, bỡn, ban, béo, phạng, phàng, pháng

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