斑

Translingual

Han character

斑 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: page 477, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13470
• Dae Jaweon: page 835, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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／会意) : 玨 (“jade”) + 文 (“stripe”).

Etymology 1

Either the same etymon as *班 (OC *praːn) or related to *駁 (OC *praːwɢ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ

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

  (Hokkien, POJ): pan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bang¹ / boin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ban
    • Wade–Giles: pan¹
    • Yale: bān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
    • Palladius: бань (banʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baan¹
    • Yale: bāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ban¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pân
    • Hakka Romanization System: ban´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ban¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pan²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (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/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bang¹ / boin¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pang / poiⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paŋ³³/, /põĩ³³/

Note:

• bang1 - literary;
• boin1 - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: paen

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
Baxter	paen
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baan1

• 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	/*pˁran/
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

(deprecated template usage) 斑

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

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 斑 – see 癍 (“abnormal pigmentary deposits on the skin; flecks”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 癍).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, 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

• Go-on: 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

(deprecated template usage) 斑 (ban)

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