坂

See also: 阪 and 坡

Translingual

Han character

坂 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土竹水 (GHE), composition ⿰土反)

Derived characters

• 𭇸

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 224, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4910
• Dae Jaweon: page 459, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 423, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5742

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 坂
Western Zhou	Warring States
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script

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

	Old Chinese
扳	*praːn, *pʰraːn
板	*praːnʔ
版	*praːnʔ
瓪	*praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄	*praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑	*praːnʔ
蝂	*praːnʔ
眅	*pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪	*braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬	*braːnʔ
粄	*paːnʔ
反	*panʔ, *pʰan
返	*panʔ
坂	*panʔ
畈	*pans
販	*pans
汳	*pʰans
飯	*bonʔ, *bons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *panʔ) : semantic 土 + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 坂 – see 阪 (“hillside farmland; slope”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 阪).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

坂

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 阪

Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben); ほん (hon)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: さか (saka, 坂, Jōyō)

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
坂
さか Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Noun

坂(さか) • (saka) 

1. slope, hill

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Korean

Hanja

坂 • (pan) (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune–Reischauer p'an)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 坂 (phẳng)

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