奉

See also: 秦, 奏, and 泰

Translingual

Etymology

Current form roughly 𡗗 + 丰, though lower component only has two horizontal strokes.

Han character

奉 (radical 37 大+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手大手 (QKQ), four-corner 5050₃)

Derived characters

• 俸 棒

References

• KangXi: page 251, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5894
• Dae Jaweon: page 511, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 531, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5949

See also

• 𡗗 春 奏 秦 泰

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		奉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèng (feng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fêng⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenq
    • IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung⁶
    • Yale: fuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ²²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 奉
Mandarin	Beijing	/fəŋ⁵¹/
	Harbin	/fəŋ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/fəŋ⁵³/
	Jinan	/fəŋ²¹/
	Qingdao	/fəŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/fəŋ³¹²/
	Xi'an	/fəŋ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/fə̃²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/fəŋ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/fə̃n⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/fɤŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/foŋ³⁵/
	Chengdu	/foŋ¹³/
	Guiyang	/foŋ²¹³/
	Kunming	/foŋ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/fən⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/fəŋ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/fəŋ⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/xuŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/fə̃ŋ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/voŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/voŋ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/voŋ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ɦoŋ³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/fʌ̃²²/
	Tunxi	/fan⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/xoŋ⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɸən⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/fuŋ²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/fuŋ⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/fuŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/foŋ²²/
	Nanning	/fuŋ²²/
	Hong Kong	/foŋ²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hɔŋ²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/houŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xɔŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/hoŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/foŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /bɨoŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	奉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	扶隴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨoŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/bioŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/bioŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buawŋX/
Li Rong	/bioŋX/
Wang Li	/bĭwoŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯woŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fèng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*m-pʰ(r)oŋʔ/, /*pʰ(r)oŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*boŋʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	奉	奉
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fèng	fèng
Middle Chinese	‹ bjowngX ›	‹ phjowngX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-pʰ(r)oŋʔ/	/*pʰ(r)oŋʔ/
English	present (v.) with both hands	hold with both hands; to present; receive
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	奉
Reading #	1/1
No.	3239
Phonetic component	丰
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	奉
Old Chinese	/*boŋʔ/

Definitions

1. to offer (tribute)
2. receive
3. serve
4. to respect

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Japanese

Kanji

奉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぶ (bu)
• Kan’on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: たてまつる (tatematsuru)

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Korean

Hanja

奉 • ‎(bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune-Reischauer pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

奉 (phụng, vụng)

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