阪

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See also: 坂
阪 U+962A, 阪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-962A
← 阩
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 阫 →

Translingual

Han character

阪 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹水 (NLHE), four-corner 71247 or 72247, composition ⿰阝反)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1346, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41562
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1848, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4117, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+962A

Chinese

trad. 阪
simp. 坂*/阪
alternative forms 坂
岅／坂
阪 - simplified form used in some place names

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 阪
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (反) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
扳 *praːn, *pʰraːn
板 *praːnʔ
版 *praːnʔ
瓪 *praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄 *praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑 *praːnʔ
蝂 *praːnʔ
眅 *pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪 *braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬 *braːnʔ
粄 *paːnʔ
反 *panʔ, *pʰan
返 *panʔ
坂 *panʔ
畈 *pans
販 *pans
汳 *pʰans
飯 *bonʔ, *bons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *braːnʔ, *panʔ) : semantic 阝 (“mound”) + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan) – hill, slope.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 阪 阪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 元 (66) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III II
Fanqie 府遠切 扶板切
Baxter pjonX baenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʉɐnX/ /bˠanX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʷiɐnX/ /bᵚanX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piuɐnX/ /bɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/puanX/ /baɨnX/
Li
Rong 		/piuɐnX/ /banX/
Wang
Li 		/pĭwɐnX/ /banX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pi̯wɐnX/ /bʱanX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fǎn bàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		faan2 baan6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 阪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bǎn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjonX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*paʔ/
English slope, bank

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 阪 阪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2962 2971
Phonetic
component 		反 反
Rime
group 		元 元
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		阪 反
Old
Chinese 		/*braːnʔ/ /*panʔ/
Notes 同阪

Definitions

阪

  1. hillside farmland
  2. slope

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

阪

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. slope, hillside

Readings

  • Go-on: べん (ben)、ほん (hon)
  • Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
  • Kan’yō-on: ばん (ban)
  • Kun: さか (saka, 阪)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
阪
さか
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 阪 – see the following entry.
【さか】
slope; hill
Alternative spelling
坂
(This term, 阪, is an alternative spelling (only in proper nouns) of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
阪
はん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 阪 (MC pjonX|baenX).

Pronunciation

Affix

阪(はん) • (han) ←はん (fan)?

  1. Short for 大阪 (Ōsaka, “Ōsaka (a city in Japan)”).
    阪神(はんしん) (hanshin)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 阪 (MC baenX). Recorded as Middle Korean 판〮 (phán) (Yale: phan) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

阪 (eumhun 언덕 판 (eondeok pan))

  1. hanja form? of 판 (“slope; hill”)

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

阪: Hán Nôm readings: phản, bản

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