邦

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See also: 那
邦 U+90A6, 邦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90A6
← 邥
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 邧 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

邦 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手十弓中 (QJNL), four-corner 57027, composition ⿰丰阝)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1269, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39310
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1768, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3756, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+90A6

Chinese

trad. 邦
simp. # 邦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邦 *proːŋ
梆 *proːŋ
垹 *proːŋ
肨 *pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌 *broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤 *broːŋʔ
棒 *broːŋʔ
蜯 *broːŋʔ
琫 *poːŋʔ
菶 *poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸 *poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼 *boːŋ
蜂 *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸 *boːŋ
蓬 *boːŋ
篷 *boːŋ
唪 *boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲 *boːŋʔ
丰 *pʰoŋ
妦 *pʰoŋ
仹 *pʰoŋ
峯 *pʰoŋ
峰 *pʰoŋ
鋒 *pʰoŋ
烽 *pʰoŋ
蠭 *pʰoŋ
桻 *pʰoŋ
莑 *pʰoŋ
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧 *pʰoŋʔ
逢 *boŋ
縫 *boŋ, *boŋs
漨 *boŋ
捀 *boŋ, *boŋs
奉 *boŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *proːŋ) : phonetic 丰 (OC *pʰoŋ) + semantic 阝.

Etymology 1

Possibly the same etymon as 封 (OC *poŋ, *poŋs) (Wang, 1982, Schuessler, 2007). Compare also Burmese ပြည် (prany, “country”) (Luce, 1981).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 邦
Mandarin Beijing /pɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /paŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /pɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /paŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /paŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /paŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /paŋ²¹/
Xining /pɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /pɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /pɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /paŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /paŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /paŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /pã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /paŋ³¹/
Hefei /pɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /pɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /pɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /pɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /pɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /pɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /pɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /puɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /pɔ³¹/
Tunxi /pau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pan³³/
Xiangtan /pɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /pɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /paŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /pɑŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pɔŋ⁵³/
Nanning /pɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pɔŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /paŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pouŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /paŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔbaŋ²³/
Rime
Character 邦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 江 (9)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 博江切
Baxter paewng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠʌŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚɔŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pɔŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/paɨwŋ/
Li
Rong 		/pɔŋ/
Wang
Li 		/pɔŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pɔŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 邦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pæwng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁroŋ/
English country

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 邦
Reading # 1/1
No. 3200
Phonetic
component 		丰
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		邦
Old
Chinese 		/*proːŋ/

Definitions

邦

  1. ⁜ nation; country; sovereign state
    異邦／异邦  ―  yìbāng  ―  foreign country
    友邦  ―  yǒubāng  ―  nation or country friendly to one's own country
    鄰邦／邻邦  ―  línbāng  ―  neighbouring country
    邦交  ―  bāngjiāo  ―  diplomatic relations
    一言興邦／一言兴邦  ―  yīyánxìngbāng  ―  One inspirational sentence can revitalize a nation.
  2. state; Pradesh (political division of a federation, especially in India and Myanmar.)
    北方邦  ―  běifāngbāng  ―  Uttar Pradesh, India
    克欽邦／克钦邦  ―  Kèqīn Bāng  ―  Kachin State, Myanmar
  3. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 邦 – see 幫 (“the sides of an object; to help; to assist; to aid; etc.”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 幫).
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai 邦
Kyūjitai
[1][2]
邦󠄂
邦+&#xE0102;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
邦󠄆
邦+&#xE0106;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
邦󠄅
邦+&#xE0105;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

邦

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. home country (usually refers to Japan)

Readings

  • Go-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)←ほう (fou, historical)
  • Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)←はう (fau, historical)
  • Kun: くに (kuni, 邦)

Compounds

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 邦 – see the following entry.
【国くに】2
a land, a large place
a country in general, a region
a country as in a nation, a state
the office of emperor, the crown; affairs of state
a province of ancient Japan
the national government in ancient Japan; the national capital in ancient Japan
one's birthplace, where one is from, one's home
(This term, 邦, is an alternative spelling (uncommon) of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 1234 (paper), page 630 (digital)
  2. ^ 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “邦”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎ (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 邦 (MC paewng). Recorded as Middle Korean 바ᇰ (pang) (Yale: pang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

邦 (eumhun 나라 방 (nara bang))

  1. hanja form? of 방 (“country”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

邦: Hán Nôm readings: vâng, bang, bương

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