凡

See also: 几 and 凢

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

凡
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) - a plate, a flat dish.

Borrowed for abstract meanings. Another character 盤 was created to refer to the original word.

Han character

凡 (radical 16 几+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓戈 (HNI), four-corner 7721₀, composition ⿵几丶)

1. all, any, every
2. ordinary, common

Derived characters

• 汎, 帆, 芃, 軓
• 風, 鳳

See also

• 𠔼

References

• KangXi: page 134, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1739
• Dae Jaweon: page 299, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 276, character 3
• Unihan data for U+51E1

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		凡

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fán, chù, jù (fan², chu⁴, ju⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˊ, ㄔㄨˋ, ㄐㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): fàm
• Min Nan (POJ): hōan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fán
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: fan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fanr
    • IPA ^(key): /fa̠n³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chù
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'u⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jù
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiw
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan⁴
    • Yale: fàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /fɑːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fàm
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /fam¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hōan
    • Tâi-lô: huān
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (凡, reconstructed)
Character (凡), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 凡 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 符咸切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/bɨɐm/	/bʱi̯wɐm/	/biɐm/	/biɐm/	/buam/	/bĭwɐm/	/biɐm/

Old Chinese pronunciation (凡, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
凡								fán								‹ bjom ›								/*[b]rom/								in every case
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
凡					2914					凡					談					3					凡					/*bom/					鹹手冊據切韻改䒦

Definitions

凡

1. worldly; mortal; earthly
2. ordinary; commonplace
3. outline; gist
4. the fourth scale degree in Gongche musical notation (工尺譜／工尺谱)

Adverb

凡

1. every; all; any
   • John 1.3

     万物是借着他造的。凡被造的，没有一样不是借着他造的。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Wànwù shì jièzhe tā zào de. Fán bèi zào de, mòyǒu yīyàng bùshì jièzhe tā zào de. [Pinyin]

     All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

2. altogether

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Japanese

Kanji

凡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Definitions

1. Mediocre;

Readings

• Goon: ぼん (bon)
• Kan’on: はん (han)
• Kun: すべて (subete), およそ (oyoso)

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Korean

Hanja

凡 (beom)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 범 (revised: beom, McCune-Reischauer: pŏm)

• Name (hangeul): 무릇()

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: phàm

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