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U+96F1, 雱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96F1

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 173, +4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一月卜竹尸 (MBYHS), four-corner 10227, composition )

  1. snowing heavily

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1372, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42233
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1879, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4059, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+96F1

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-p(w)am (to freeze; snow) (provisionally reconstructed) (STEDT).

Insides Sinitic, (OC *pʰˁaŋ) is cognate with (OC *ʔraŋ) "sleet, snowflake", (OC *p.rəŋ) & (OC *əŋ ~ p.rəŋ) (both meaning "ice"), & possibly also (OC (r)əŋ) "to congeal" (STEDT; Baxter and Sagart, 2014);
Outsides Sinitic, cognate with Proto-Tani *pam (snow), Japhug jpɣom (to freeze), tɤjpɣom (ice) (STEDT; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter phang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰaŋ/
Li
Rong
/pʰɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/pʰɑŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/pʰɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pong1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
páng
Middle
Chinese
‹ phang ›
Old
Chinese
/*pʰˁaŋ/
English heavy snowfall

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. 2994
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰaːŋ/

Definitions

  1. (literary, of snowfall or rainfall) heavy; blanketing

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ほう ()