判

See also: 刊

Translingual

Traditional	判
Simplified	判
Japanese	判
Korean	判

Han character

判 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 火手中弓 (FQLN), four-corner 9250₀, composition ⿰半刂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 138, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1923
• Dae Jaweon: page 311, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 331, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5224

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		判

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰaːns) : phonetic 半 (OC *paːns, “half (cow)”) + semantic 刂 (“knife”) – to cut fine distinctions 刀 (to judge, to discriminate). Phonetic (半) is also a cow cut in half, hence “divide a cow”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pàn (pan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pun³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phan
• Northern Min (KCR): pu̿ing
• Eastern Min (BUC): puáng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phoàn / phàn / phòaⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): puang³ / puan³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pàn
    • Wade–Giles: pʻan⁴
    • Yale: pàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pann
    • Palladius: пань (panʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pun³
    • Yale: pun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pun³
    • Guangdong Romanization: pun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuːn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phan
    • Hakka Romanization System: pan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰan⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: pu̿ing
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuiŋ³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: puáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuɑŋ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phoàn
    • Tâi-lô: phuàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoaxn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰuan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰuan²¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phàn
    • Tâi-lô: phàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phaxn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰan¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: phuànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phvoax
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰuã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰuã¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /pʰuã²¹/

Note:

• phoàn/phàn - literary;
• phòaⁿ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: puang³ / puan³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phuàng / phuàⁿ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuaŋ²¹³/, /pʰũã²¹³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 判
Mandarin	Beijing	/pʰan⁵¹/
	Harbin	/pʰan⁵³/
	Tianjin	/pʰan⁵³/
	Jinan	/pʰã²¹/
	Qingdao	/pʰã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/pʰan³¹²/
	Xi'an	/pʰã⁴⁴/
	Xining	/pʰã²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/pʰan¹³/
	Lanzhou	/pʰɛ̃n¹³/
	Ürümqi	/pʰan²¹³/
	Wuhan	/pʰan³⁵/
	Chengdu	/pʰan¹³/
	Guiyang	/pʰan²¹³/
	Kunming	/pʰã̠²¹²/
	Nanjing	/pʰaŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/pʰʊ̃⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pʰæ̃⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/pʰɑŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/pʰæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/pʰø³⁵/
	Suzhou	/pʰø⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/pʰuõ⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/pʰø⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/pʰo³²⁴/
	Tunxi	/pʰuːə⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/pʰõ⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/pʰɔn⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/pʰɵn²¹³/ /pʰɔŋ²¹³/ ～官
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰan⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/pʰɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pʰun³³/
	Nanning	/pʰun³³/
	Hong Kong	/pʰun³³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/pʰan²¹/ /pʰuã²¹/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/pʰuɑŋ²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/puiŋ³³/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/pʰuaŋ²¹³/ /pʰuã²¹³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/fuaŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: phanH

Rime
Character	判
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	普半切
Baxter	phanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰuɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰwanH/
Li Rong	/pʰuɑnH/
Wang Li	/pʰuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pun3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰˤan-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	判
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pàn
Middle Chinese	‹ phanH ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰˁan-s/
English	divide
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	判
Reading #	1/1
No.	250
Phonetic component	半
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	判
Old Chinese	/*pʰaːns/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 判

1. to differentiate; to discriminate
2. to judge
3. to sentence
4. obvious

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Japanese

Kanji

判

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ばん (ban, Jōyō)
• Kun: わかる (wakaru, 判る); わかれる (wakareru); わかつ (wakatsu)

Compounds

Compounds

• 判然(はんぜん) (hanzen): clearness

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
判
はん Grade: 5
on'yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 判 (phan^H).

Noun

判(はん) • (han) 

1. stamp, seal
2. judgement

Suffix

判(はん) • (-han) 

1. size of paper or books

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
判
ばん Grade: 5
kan'yōon

Suffix

判(ばん) • (-ban) 

1. size of paper or books

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Korean

Hanja

判 (eum 판 (pan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

判: Hán Nôm readings: phán

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