朋

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

朋 (radical 74 月+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月月 (BB), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿰月月)

1. friend, pal, acquaintance

See also

• 友

References

• KangXi: page 504, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14340
• Dae Jaweon: page 883, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2050, character 6
• Unihan data for U+670B

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		朋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): péng (peng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pang⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): pîng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: péng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: p'êng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pengr
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pang⁴
    • Yale: pàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pang⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɐŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pîng
    • Tâi-lô: pîng
    • IPA (Taipei): /piŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piŋ¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (朋, reconstructed)
Character (朋), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 登 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 步崩切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/bəŋ/	/bʱəŋ/	/bəŋ/	/bəŋ/	/bəŋ/	/bəŋ/	/bəŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (朋, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
朋								péng								‹ bong ›								/*[b]ˤəŋ/								set of cowries; friend
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
朋					9663					朋					蒸					0					朋					/*bɯːŋ/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

朋

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: ほう (hō)
• Kun: とも (tomo)

Noun

朋 (hiragana とも, romaji tomo)

1. Alternative form of 友

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Korean

Hanja

朋 (bung) (hangeul 붕, revised bung, McCune-Reischauer pung, Yale pung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

朋 (bằng, bẵng)

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