幡

幡 U+5E61, 幡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E61 ← 幠 [U+5E60] CJK Unified Ideographs 幢 → [U+5E62]

Translingual

Han character

幡 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中月竹木田 (LBHDW), four-corner 4226₉, composition ⿰巾番)

1. pennant, banner, streamer, flag

Derived characters

• 𥶋

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 336, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9086
• Dae Jaweon: page 643, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 754, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5E61

Chinese

trad.		幡
simp. #		幡

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
皤	*paːl, *baːl
嶓	*paːl
番	*paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
播	*paːls
譒	*paːls
鄱	*baːl
潘	*pʰaːn
蟠	*baːn, *ban
磻	*baːn
蕃	*pan, *ban
轓	*pan, *pʰan
鱕	*pan
鐇	*pan, *ban
藩	*pan, *ban
籓	*pan
橎	*panʔ
翻	*pʰan
幡	*pʰan
飜	*pʰan
旛	*pʰan, *ban
繙	*pʰan, *ban
燔	*ban
蹯	*ban
膰	*ban
羳	*ban
鷭	*ban
璠	*ban
襎	*ban
墦	*ban

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰan): semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 番 (OC *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fān (fan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan¹

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fān
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fan
    • Wade–Giles: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fan
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fānr
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fanr
    • Wade–Giles: fan¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: fānr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fal
    • Palladius: фаньр (fanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: faan¹
    • Yale: fāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan
    • Tâi-lô: huan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoafn
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /huan³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /huan⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: phjon

Rime
Character	幡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	孚袁切
Baxter	phjon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰʉɐn/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰʷiɐn/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuan/
Li Rong	/pʰiuɐn/
Wang Li	/pʰĭwɐn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯wɐn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	幡
Reading #	1/1
No.	2890
Phonetic component	番
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	飜
Old Chinese	/*pʰan/

Definitions

幡

1. banner; streamer; flag

Compounds

• 三幡
• 中幡會 / 中幡会
• 八幡 (Bāfān)
• 幡仔
• 幡信
• 幡兒 / 幡儿
• 幡布
• 幡幡
• 幡幟 / 幡帜
• 幢幡 (chuángfān)
• 幡然 (fānrán)
• 幡然悔悟
• 幡蓋 / 幡盖
• 引路幡
• 打幡
• 揚幡招魂 / 扬幡招魂
• 揚幡擂鼓 / 扬幡擂鼓
• 白幡
• 白虎幡
• 素幡
• 紙幡兒 / 纸幡儿
• 經幡 / 经幡 (jīngfān)
• 靈頭幡 / 灵头幡
• 風幡 / 风幡

Further reading

• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “幡” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].
• “幡”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

幡

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. flag, banner

Readings

• Go-on: ほん (hon)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kan’yō-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: はた (hata, 幡)、わた (wata, 幡)
• Nanori: まん (man)

References

• “^▲幡”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʌ̹n]
• Phonetic hangul: [번]

Hanja

幡 (eum 번 (beon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

幡: Hán Nôm readings: phan

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