阪

See also: 坂

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 阝 (“mound”) + phonetic 反 – hill, slope.

Han character

阪 (radical 170 阜+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹水 (NLHE), four-corner 7124₇, composition ⿰⻖反)

1. hillside farmland
2. slope

References

• KangXi: page 1346, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41562
• Dae Jaweon: page 1848, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4117, character 12
• Unihan data for U+962A

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Chinese

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trad.		阪
simp.		坂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎn (ban³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: pan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baan
    • IPA ^(key): /pa̠n²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: baan²
    • Yale: báan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baan²
    • IPA ^(key): /pɑːn³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (阪, reconstructed)
Character (阪), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 元 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 府遠切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pʉɐnX/	/pi̯wɐnX/	/piuɐnX/	/pʷiɐnX/	/puanX/	/pĭwɐnX/	/piuɐnX/
Character (阪), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 刪 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 扶板切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/bɣanX/	/bʱanX/	/banX/	/bɯanX/	/baɨnX/	/banX/	/bɐnX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (阪, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
阪								bǎn								‹ pjonX ›								/*pa[n]ʔ/								slope, bank
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
阪					2962					反					元					1					阪					/*braːnʔ/
阪					2971					反					元					1					反					/*panʔ/					同阪

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

阪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

slope, hillside

Readings

• On: はん (han)
• Kun: さか (saka)

Compounds

• 大阪 (おおさか, ōsaka, “Osaka”)

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Korean

Hanja

阪 (pan) (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune-Reischauer p'an, Yale phan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

阪 (phản, bản)

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