般

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 舟 (“boat”) + 殳 (“rotate”)

Han character

般 (radical 137 舟+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜竹弓水 (HYHNE), four-corner 2744₇, composition ⿰舟殳)

1. sort, manner, kind, category

Derived characters

• 槃, 盤, 磐, 螌, 媻, 𪒀, 瘢, 𥈼, 鞶, 幋, 䰉, 搫

References

• KangXi: page 1009, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30388
• Dae Jaweon: page 1467, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3057, character 8
• Unihan data for U+822C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

般 (Yale bun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

般 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: はん (han), ばん (ban), はつ (hatsu)
• Kun: めぐる (meguru)

Compounds

般若 一般 全般

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Korean

Hanja

般 (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

般 (pinyin bān (ban1), Wade-Giles pan¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

般 (ban, bàn, bơn, bát)