番

See also 蹯

Translingual

Han character

番 (radical 102 田+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹木田 (HDW), four-corner 2060₉, composition ⿱釆田)

1. to take turns
2. a turn, a time, to repeat
3. guard
4. foreign/foreigner, barbarian

Derived characters

• 翻 飜 繙

References

• KangXi: page 763, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21858
• Dae Jaweon: page 1172, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2543, character 4
• Unihan data for U+756A

See also

• 胡
• 洋

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Cantonese

Hanzi

番 (jyutping faan1, pun1, Yale faan1, pun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

番 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ばん (ban), はん (han)
• Kun: つがい (番い, tsugai), つがう (番う, tsugau), つがえる (番える, tsugaeru)

Compounds

• 番外
• 番犬 (banken): a watchdog
• 番号 (ばんごう, bangō)
• 番地
• 番頭
• 番人
• 番組
• 定番
• 一番 (いちばん, ichiban)
• 番兵: a guard, a sentry

Counter

番 (hiragana ばん, romaji -ban)

1. (sports) matches

Noun

番 (hiragana ばん, romaji ban)

1. one's turn (for example, when taking turns in a game)

Suffix

番 (hiragana ばん, romaji -ban)

1. (applied to numerals) -th: forms ordinal numerals such as 一番 "first", 二番 "second", and so on.

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Korean

Hanja

番 (hangeul 번, 반, revised beon, ban, McCune-Reischauer pŏn, pan, Yale pen, pan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

番 (pinyin bō (bo1), fān (fan1), fán (fan2), pān (pan1), pán (pan2), pí (pi2), pó (po2), Wade-Giles po¹, fan¹, fan², p'an¹, p'an², p'i², p'o²)

Compounds

• 半唐番 ("half Chinese" person)
• 番邦
• 番号
• 番客
• 番木瓜
• 番茄
• 番石榴
• 番薯

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Vietnamese

Han character

番 (phiên, phan, ba, bà)

Readings

• Nôm: ba, bà, phiên, phan, phen

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999