搬

搬 U+642C, 搬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-642C ← 搫 [U+642B] CJK Unified Ideographs 搭 → [U+642D]

Translingual

Han character

搬 (radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手竹卜水 (QHYE), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌般)

References

• KangXi: page 448, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12507
• Dae Jaweon: page 798, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1933, character 2
• Unihan data for U+642C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		搬

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
螌	*praːn
般	*praːn, *paːn, *baːn
媻	*baːl, *baːn
搫	*baːl, *baːn
搬	*paːn
盤	*baːn
磐	*baːn
瘢	*baːn
幋	*baːn
槃	*baːn
縏	*baːn
鎜	*baːn
鞶	*baːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *paːn): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 般 (OC *praːn, *paːn, *baːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ

  (Chengdu, SP): ban¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pân
• Jin (Wiktionary): ban¹
• Min Bei (KCR): buíng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): poaⁿ / poan / pan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): buan¹

• Wu (Wiktionary): poe (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
    • Wade–Giles: pan1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ban
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: ban¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ban
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pan⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun¹
    • Yale: būn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pân
    • Hakka Romanization System: ban´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ban¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pan²⁴/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: ban¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /pæ̃¹¹/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: buíng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puiŋ⁵⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: puann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvoaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /puã³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /puã⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poan
    • Tâi-lô: puan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poafn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /puan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /puan³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pan
    • Tâi-lô: pan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pafn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pan⁴⁴/

Note:

• poaⁿ - vernacular;
• poan/pan - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: buan¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: puaⁿ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pũã³³/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: poe (T1)
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pø⁵³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.pˤan/

  (Zhengzhang): /*paːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	搬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bān
Middle Chinese	‹ pan ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.pˁan/
English	move
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	搬
Reading #	1/1
No.	230
Phonetic component	般
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𤳖
Old Chinese	/*paːn/
Notes	般後起轉註字

Definitions

搬

1. to move; to shift the position of; to transport (something large)

   搬球門 / 搬球门  ―  bān qiúmén  ―  to move the soccer goal

2. to move (house)

   搬家  ―  bānjiā  ―  to move house

   搬屋 [Cantonese]  ―  bun¹ uk¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to move house

   搬走  ―  bānzǒu  ―  to move away

3. to apply indiscriminately
4. (slang) to rake in money

See also

• (to move): (Cantonese) 喐 (juk1, “to move (something small)”)

Compounds

• 大搬風／大搬风
• 扯是搬非
• 掠是搬非
• 搬九
• 搬假戲／搬假戏
• 搬兵 (bānbīng)
• 搬出 (bānchū)
• 搬動／搬动 (bāndòng)
• 搬厝 (poaⁿ-chhù) (Min Nan)
• 搬口
• 搬口弄舌
• 搬唆
• 搬唱
• 搬嘴
• 搬子
• 搬字過紙／搬字过纸

• 搬家 (bānjiā)
• 搬弄 (bānnòng)
• 搬弄口舌
• 搬弄是非 (bānnòngshìfēi)
• 搬戲／搬戏 (poaⁿ-hì) (Min Nan)
• 搬挑
• 搬挪
• 搬斗
• 搬斤播兩／搬斤播两
• 搬是造非
• 搬楦頭／搬楦头
• 搬演 (bānyǎn)
• 搬登
• 搬磚砸腳／搬砖砸脚
• 搬移 (bānyí)
• 搬脣弄舌／搬唇弄舌

• 搬脣撅嘴／搬唇撅嘴
• 搬脣遞舌／搬唇递舌
• 搬調／搬调
• 搬請／搬请
• 搬走
• 搬逗
• 搬運／搬运 (bānyùn)
• 搬運作用／搬运作用
• 搬遷／搬迁 (bānqiān)
• 搬配
• 搬開／搬开 (bānkāi)
• 搬風／搬风
• 搬鬥／搬斗
• 生搬硬套 (shēngbānyìngtào)
• 腦袋搬家／脑袋搬家

References

• “搬”, 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

搬

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. a carrier or transporter of things
2. to transport
3. to convey

Readings

• Go-on: ばん (ban)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kun: はこぶ (hakobu, 搬ぶ); うつす (utsusu)

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Korean

Hanja

搬 • (ban) (hangeul 반, McCune–Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Vietnamese

Hán tự

搬: Hán Việt readings: ban, bàn
搬: Nôm readings: bưng

1. Nôm form of bưng (“to carry, to pick up”).