朋

朋 U+670B, 朋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-670B ← 朊 [U+670A] CJK Unified Ideographs 朌 → [U+670C]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

朋 (radical 74, 月+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月月 (BB), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿰月月)

References

• KangXi: page 504, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14340
• Dae Jaweon: page 883, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2050, character 6
• Unihan data for U+670B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		朋

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 朋
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (朋) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
崩	*pɯːŋ
堋	*pɯːŋs, *pʰɯːŋ, *bɯːŋ
漰	*pʰɯːŋ
倗	*pʰɯːŋʔ, *bɯːŋ, *bɯːŋs
朋	*bɯːŋ
鵬	*bɯːŋ
棚	*bɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
鬅	*bɯːŋ
掤	*pɯŋ
淜	*bɯŋ
輣	*brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
繃	*prɯːŋ, *prɯːŋ
弸	*pʰrɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ

Pictogram (象形) (- seal character previously believed to be wings of a large "peng" bird) (- oracle character two strings of 5 cowries).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): péng (peng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pang⁴
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pêng / pâng / pn̂g

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pêng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: péng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
    • Wade–Giles: p'êng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: perng
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pang⁴
    • Yale: pàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: peng⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɐŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pêng
    • Tâi-lô: pîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peeng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /piɪŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pâng
    • Tâi-lô: pâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paang
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pn̂g
    • Tâi-lô: pn̂g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pngg
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pŋ̍²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pêng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phêng
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰeŋ⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 朋
Mandarin	Beijing	/pʰəŋ³⁵/
	Harbin	/pʰəŋ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/pʰəŋ⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/pʰəŋ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/pʰəŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/pʰəŋ⁴²/
	Xi'an	/pʰəŋ²⁴/
	Xining	/pʰə̃²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/pʰəŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/pʰə̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/pʰɤŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/pʰoŋ²¹³/
	Chengdu	/pʰoŋ³¹/
	Guiyang	/pʰoŋ²¹/
	Kunming	/pʰoŋ¹/
	Nanjing	/pʰən²⁴/
	Hefei	/pʰəŋ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pʰəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/pʰəŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/pʰə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/bã²³/
	Suzhou	/bən¹³/
	Hangzhou	/boŋ²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/boŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/pʰʌ̃⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/pʰan⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/poŋ³³/
	Xiangtan	/bən¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/pʰuŋ²⁴/
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰen¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/pʰen¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pʰɐŋ²¹/
	Nanning	/pʰɐŋ²¹/
	Hong Kong	/pʰɐŋ²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/piŋ³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/pɛiŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/paiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pʰeŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/foŋ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /bəŋ/▼

Rime
Character	朋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	步崩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bəŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/bəŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/bəŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bəŋ/
Li Rong	/bəŋ/
Wang Li	/bəŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱəŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	péng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤəŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	朋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	péng
Middle Chinese	‹ bong ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁəŋ/
English	set of cowries; friend
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	朋
Reading #	1/1
No.	9663
Phonetic component	朋
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	朋
Old Chinese	/*bɯːŋ/

Definitions

朋

1. unit of shell money; various theories exist about the exact amount
2. (not used independently) friend
3. A surname​.

Compounds

• 三朋四友
• 乞拉朋吉
• 交朋結義／交朋结义
• 吉朋
• 呼朋引伴
• 呼朋引類／呼朋引类
• 夠朋友／够朋友 (gòu péngyou)
• 好朋友 (hǎopéngyou)
• 引類呼朋／引类呼朋
• 挾朋樹黨／挟朋树党
• 朋交
• 朋僚 (péngliáo)
• 朋儔／朋俦
• 朋儕／朋侪
• 朋分花用
• 朋友 (péngyou)
• 朋友有舊／朋友有旧
• 朋奸
• 朋從／朋从
• 朋比 (péngbǐ)

• 朋比作仇
• 朋比作奸
• 朋比為奸／朋比为奸 (péngbǐwéijiān)
• 朋淫
• 朋謀／朋谋
• 朋酒
• 朋頭／朋头
• 朋馳／朋驰
• 朋黨／朋党 (péngdǎng)
• 朋黨之爭／朋党之争
• 朋黨比周／朋党比周
• 朋黨論／朋党论
• 無朋／无朋
• 燕朋
• 狂朋怪友
• 狐朋狗友 (húpénggǒuyǒu)
• 狐朋狗黨／狐朋狗党
• 男朋友 (nánpéngyou)
• 碩大無朋／硕大无朋
• 老朋友 (lǎopéngyou)

• 耐久朋
• 良朋
• 良朋益友
• 親朋／亲朋
• 親朋好友／亲朋好友 (qīnpénghǎoyǒu)
• 詩朋酒侶／诗朋酒侣
• 詩朋酒友／诗朋酒友
• 詩酒朋儕／诗酒朋侪
• 豬朋狗友／猪朋狗友 (zhūpénggǒuyǒu)
• 賓朋／宾朋 (bīnpéng)
• 賓朋滿座／宾朋满座
• 酒肉朋友 (jiǔròu-péngyou)
• 面朋
• 韓朋／韩朋
• 韓朋賦／韩朋赋
• 韓朋鳥／韩朋鸟
• 高朋
• 高朋故戚
• 高朋滿座／高朋满座

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Japanese

Kanji

朋

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. friend
2. faction

Readings

• Go-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: とも (tomo, 朋)

Compounds

Compounds

• 朋 (ほう)党 (とう) (hōtō)
• 朋輩 (ほうばい) (hōbai)
• 朋 (ほう)友 (ゆう) (hōyū)
• 親 (しん)朋 (ぽう) (shinpō)
• 同 (どう)朋 (ぼう) (dōbō)
• 友 (ゆう)朋 (ほう) (yūhō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
朋
とも Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Extension of and cognate with 共 (tomo, “same, together”).

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) と​も [tóꜜmò] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [to̞mo̞]

Noun

朋 (hiragana とも, katakana トモ, rōmaji tomo)

1. Alternative spelling of 友 (tomo): a friend, companion; a member of the same category; a comrade

Proper noun

朋 (hiragana とも, rōmaji Tomo)

1. a female given name

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Korean

Hanja

朋 • (bung) (hangeul 붕, revised bung, McCune–Reischauer pung, Yale pung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

朋 (bằng, bẵng)

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