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U+8303, 范
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8303

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 140, +5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿水尸山 (TESU), four-corner 44112, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1026, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30834
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3196, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8303

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bomʔ) : semantic (grass) + phonetic (OC *pʰoms, *bom).

Etymology 1

trad.
simp. #
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Pronunciation


Note:
  • hang5 - literary (incl. surname);
  • bue5 - used in 前范 (a village in Dongpu, Xiuyu, Putian, Fujian).
Note:
  • huam6 - Chaozhou;
  • huang6 - Shantou.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 范 (姓)
Mandarin Beijing /fan⁵¹/
Harbin /fan⁵³/
Tianjin /fan⁵³/
Jinan /fã²¹/
Qingdao /fã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /fan³¹²/
Xi'an /fã⁴⁴/
Xining /fã²¹³/
Yinchuan /fan¹³/
Lanzhou /fɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /fan²¹³/
Wuhan /fan³⁵/
Chengdu /fan¹³/
Guiyang /fan²¹³/
Kunming /fã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /faŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /fæ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /fæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /fæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ve²³/
Suzhou /ve̞³¹/
Hangzhou /vẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /va³⁵/
Hui Shexian /fɛ²²/
Tunxi /fuːə²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸan⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /fan²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fam⁵³/
Taoyuan /fɑm⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fan²²/
Nanning /fan³³/
Hong Kong /fan²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /huan²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /huɑŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /piŋ⁴²/
Shantou (Teochew) /huaŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /faŋ³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (146)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter bjomX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɨɐmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/biɐmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/biɐmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buamX/
Li
Rong
/biɐmX/
Wang
Li
/bĭwɐmX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯wɐmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
faan6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fàn fàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjomX › ‹ bjomX ›
Old
Chinese
/*(r)omʔ/ /*(r)omʔ/
English (surname) bee

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2982
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bomʔ/

Definitions

  1. bee
    alt. forms: 𧍙
  2. Simplied form of  / (fàn). Alternative of (fàn).
  3. (~縣) Fan County, Fanxian (a county of Puyang, Henan, China)
  4. a surname
      ―  Fàn Zhòngyān  ―  Fan Zhongyan (Song dynasty politician)
  5. A respelling of the Dutch patronymic van
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    西  ―  Fàn Pèixī  ―  van Persie (Dutch football player)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: Fan

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“mould; pattern; model; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of ).
Notes:

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ぼん (bon)
  • Kan-on: はん (han)
  • Kun: はち (hachi)いがた (igata)のり (nori)

Korean

Hanja

(beom) (hangeul , revised beom, McCune–Reischauer pŏm, Yale pem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: phạm

  1. Chữ Hán form of Phạm (a surname from Chinese.).
    范五老Phạm Ngũ Lão