判

See also 刊

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 半 (“half (cow)”) + semantic 刂 (“knife”) – to cut fine distinctions 刀 (to judge, to discriminate). Phonetic (半) is also a cow cut in half, hence “divide a cow”.

Han character

判 (radical 18 刀+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 火手中弓 (FQLN), four-corner 9250₀)

1. judge
2. discriminate
3. conclude

References

• KangXi: page 138, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1923
• Dae Jaweon: page 311, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 331, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5224

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Cantonese

Hanzi

判 (Yale pun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

判 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: はん (han), ばん (ban)
• Kun: わける (wakeru)

Noun

判 (hiragana はん, romaji han)

1. stamp, seal
2. judgement

Suffix

判 (hiragana ばん, romaji ban)

1. size of paper or books

判 (hiragana はん, romaji han)

1. size of paper or books

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Korean

Hanja

判 (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune-Reischauer p'an)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

判 (pinyin pàn (pan4), Wade-Giles p'an⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

判 (phán)