斑

斑 U+6591, 斑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6591 ← 斐 [U+6590] CJK Unified Ideographs 斒 → [U+6592]

Translingual

Han character

斑 (radical 67 文+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土卜大土 (MGYKG), four-corner 1111₄, composition ⿴玨文)

1. mottled
2. striped
3. spot, freckle

References

• KangXi: page 477, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13470
• Dae Jaweon: page 835, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1123, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6591

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		斑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (班) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
班	*praːn
斑	*praːn

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 𤤴 (“jade”) + 文 (“stripe”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: pan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
    • IPA ^(key): /pa̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: baan¹
    • Yale: bāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ban¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pɑːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pân
    • Hakka Romanization System: ban´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ban¹
    • IPA: /pan²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /pˠan/▼

Rime
Character	斑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	布還切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠan/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨn/
Li Rong	/pan/
Wang Li	/pan/
Bernard Karlgren	/pan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*pˤran/

  (Zhengzhang): /*praːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	斑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bān
Middle Chinese	‹ pæn ›
Old Chinese	/*pˤran/
English	variegated
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	斑
Reading #	1/1
No.	225
Phonetic component	班
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	班
Old Chinese	/*praːn/

Definitions

斑

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Compounds

• 斑馬／斑马 (bānmǎ)

• 斑鳩／斑鸠 (bānjiū)

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Japanese

Kanji

斑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: へん (hen)
• Kan’on: はん (han)
• Kun: まだら (madara), ぶち (buchi), ふ (fu)

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Korean

Hanja

斑 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

斑 (ban)

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