奉

See also: 秦, 奏, and 泰

Translingual

Traditional	奉
Simplified	奉
Japanese	奉
Korean	奉

Alternative forms

See the article for 𡗗.

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 俸, 唪, 埲, 𡞗, 淎, 𢔓, 𢜗, 捧, 𣈖, 䏾, 棒, 𣨞, 𤊡, 琫, 𨔐, 𪽙, 蜯, 𮘗, 㷯, 𫒩, 䩬, 䭰, 𩸮, 𪉪, 䳞, 菶, 𬕏, 𩃳, 𤷰

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 251, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5894
• Dae Jaweon: page 511, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 531, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5949

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		奉
alternative forms		𠬻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 奉
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
邦	*proːŋ
梆	*proːŋ
垹	*proːŋ
肨	*pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌	*broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤	*broːŋʔ
棒	*broːŋʔ
蜯	*broːŋʔ
琫	*poːŋʔ
菶	*poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸	*poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼	*boːŋ
蜂	*boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸	*boːŋ
蓬	*boːŋ
篷	*boːŋ
唪	*boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲	*boːŋʔ
丰	*pʰoŋ
妦	*pʰoŋ
仹	*pʰoŋ
峯	*pʰoŋ
峰	*pʰoŋ
鋒	*pʰoŋ
烽	*pʰoŋ
蠭	*pʰoŋ
桻	*pʰoŋ
莑	*pʰoŋ
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧	*pʰoŋʔ
逢	*boŋ
縫	*boŋ, *boŋs
漨	*boŋ
捀	*boŋ, *boŋs
奉	*boŋʔ

Originally Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *boŋʔ) : phonetic 丰 (OC *pʰoŋ) + semantic 廾. 手 later added at the bottom and the original character was corrupted to 𡗗.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèng (feng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung⁶
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): fung⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): hông
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hǒng / hōng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hong⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fòng
    • Wade–Giles: fêng⁴
    • Yale: fèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenq
    • Palladius: фэн (fɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fung⁶
    • Yale: fuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fung⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fʊŋ⁵³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /houŋ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǒng
    • Tâi-lô: hǒng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hōng
    • Tâi-lô: hōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hong
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hong⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hoŋ³⁵/

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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 (Hokkien)	/hɔŋ²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/houŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/xɔŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/hoŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/foŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjowngX

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
Baxter	bjowngX
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fung6

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 奉

1. to offer (tribute)
2. to receive
3. to serve
4. to respect
5. (～母) (phonology) a Middle Chinese initial and the 'Phags-pa script letter ꡤ (f-)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00858
• “奉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

奉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. to offer; to present

Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)
• Kun: たてまつる (tatematsuru, 奉る, Jōyō); まつる (matsuru, 奉る); ほうずる (hōzuru, 奉ずる)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 奉 (phụng, vụng)

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References

• Nom Foundation