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: 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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pân
• Min Nan (POJ): poaⁿ / poan / pan
• Wu (Wiktionary): poe (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
    • Wade–Giles: pan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
    • IPA ^(key): /pa̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun¹
    • Yale: būn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun¹
    • IPA ^(key): /puːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pân
    • Hakka Romanization System: ban´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ban¹
    • IPA: /pan²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: puann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvoaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /puã³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /puã⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream 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.

Wu

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

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)”)

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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

Han character

搬 (bưng)

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