冸

冸 U+51B8, 冸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51B8 ← 冷 [U+51B7] CJK Unified Ideographs 冹 → [U+51B9]

Translingual

Han character

冸 (Kangxi radical 15, 冫+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈一火手 (IMFQ), composition ⿰冫半)

1. melt

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 132, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1623
• Dae Jaweon: page 295, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 296, character 3
• Unihan data for U+51B8

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (半) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
半	*paːns
絆	*paːns
靽	*paːns
姅	*paːns, *pʰaːns
拌	*pʰaːn, *baːnʔ
拚	*pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
坢	*pʰaːnʔ
判	*pʰaːns
泮	*pʰaːns
頖	*pʰaːns
胖	*pʰaːns
冸	*pʰaːns
牉	*pʰaːns
柈	*baːn
伴	*baːnʔ, *baːns
叛	*baːns
畔	*baːns
袢	*ban

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 冸 – see 泮 (“to melt, dissolve”). (This character is an ancient form of 泮).

Japanese

Kanji

冸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. fall apart

Readings

• Go-on: はん (han)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: とける (tokeru)

Korean

Hanja

冸 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune–Reischauer pan)

1. melt (ice)