藩

Translingual

Han character

藩 (radical 140 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿水竹田 (TEHW), four-corner 4416₉)

1. fence
2. boundary
3. outlying border

References

• KangXi: page 1066, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32346
• Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3322, character 10
• Unihan data for U+85E9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

藩 (Yale faan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

藩 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: はん (han)
• Kun: まがき (magaki)

Suffix

藩 (hiragana はん, romaji -han)

1. fiefdom, domain

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Korean

Hanja

藩 (hangeul 번, revised beon, McCune-Reischauer pŏn, Yale pen)

1. fence, hedge
2. margin, boundary, border
3. marquisate
4. defence

Derived terms

• 藩國 (번국, beongug, -k) marquisate
  • cf. 蕃國 (번국, beongug, -k) foreign, barbarian country

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Mandarin

Hanzi

藩 (pinyin fān (fan1), fán (fan2), Wade-Giles fan¹, fan²)