泛

See also 汎

Translingual

Han character

泛 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水竹戈人 (EHIO), four-corner 3213₇)

1. to drift, float
2. careless, reckless
3. to be suffused with
4. general, non-specific
5. extensive
6. flood
7. pan-

References

• KangXi: page 616, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17298
• Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1569, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6CDB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

泛 (Yale faan3)

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Japanese

Kanji

泛

Readings

• On: はん (han), ほう (hō)
• Kun: うかぶ (ukabu)

Usage notes

This character is not a modern Japanese character. It appears mostly in new reports of China or Taiwan issues. The character 汎 is the modern Japanese character which parallels this Chinese character in usage, such as in reports about the Pan-Blue Alliance written as 泛藍連盟 in Japanese news reports.

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Korean

Hanja

泛 (hangeul 범, 봉, revised beom, bong, McCune-Reischauer pŏm, pong, Yale pem, pong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

泛 (pinyin fàn (fan4), Wade-Giles fan⁴)

Derived terms

• 泛音

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Vietnamese

Han character

泛 (phiếm, phím, mẹp)