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) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *praːn): phonetic 𤤴 (“jade”) + semantic 文 (“stripe”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pân
• Min Nan (POJ): pan

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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: 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/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pan
    • Tâi-lô: pan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pan⁴⁴/

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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

1. spot; stripe
2. resplendent
3. to cut; to split
4. A surname​.

Compounds

• 一斑 (yībān)
• 三斑家蚊
• 光斑
• 剝落斑殘／剥落斑残
• 可見一斑／可见一斑
• 壽斑／寿斑
• 斑光銅礦／斑光铜矿
• 斑剝／斑剥
• 斑哥
• 斑岩
• 斑斑 (bānbān)
• 斑斑點點／斑斑点点
• 斑斕／斑斓 (bānlán)
• 斑狀齒／斑状齿
• 斑疹 (bānzhěn)
• 斑疹傷寒／斑疹伤寒 (bānzhěn shānghán)
• 斑痕 (bānhén)
• 斑白 (bānbái)
• 斑禿／斑秃 (bāntū)
• 斑竹 (bānzhú)
• 斑竹壋／斑竹垱 (Bānzhúdàng)
• 斑節蝦／斑节虾
• 斑紋／斑纹 (bānwén)

• 斑蚊
• 斑蝥 (bānmáo)
• 斑蝶
• 斑衣
• 斑衣戲彩／斑衣戏彩
• 斑銅礦／斑铜矿
• 斑青鱗魚／斑青鳞鱼
• 斑頸鳩／斑颈鸠
• 斑飛虱／斑飞虱
• 斑馬／斑马 (bānmǎ)
• 斑馬線／斑马线 (bānmǎxiàn)
• 斑駁／斑驳 (bānbó)
• 斑駁陸離／斑驳陆离 (bānbó lùlí)
• 斑騅／斑骓
• 斑驢／斑驴
• 斑鬢／斑鬓 (bānbìn)
• 斑魚／斑鱼
• 斑鳩／斑鸠 (bānjiū)
• 斑鳩跌彈／斑鸠跌弹
• 斑點／斑点 (bāndiǎn)
• 斕斑／斓斑
• 晒斑
• 母斑

• 汗斑 (hànbān)
• 牙菌斑
• 璘斑
• 略見一斑／略见一斑
• 白斑 (báibān)
• 石斑魚／石斑鱼 (shíbānyú)
• 窺見一斑／窥见一斑
• 窺豹一斑／窥豹一斑
• 紫斑病
• 羊斑
• 耀斑 (yàobān)
• 花斑癬／花斑癣 (huābānxuǎn)
• 葉斑病／叶斑病
• 蒙古斑 (měnggǔbān)
• 蘚斑／藓斑
• 虎體元斑／虎体元斑
• 血跡斑斑／血迹斑斑
• 譜斑／谱斑
• 陸離斑駁／陆离斑驳
• 雀斑 (quèbān)
• 黃斑／黄斑 (huángbān)
• 黑斑
• 黑斑蚊

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 斑 – see 癍 (“unhealthy marks on the skin”). (This character, 斑, is the second-round simplified form of 癍.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

斑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. spot
2. blemish
3. speck
4. patches

Readings

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

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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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