板

See also: 闆 and 反

Translingual

Han character

板 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水 (DHE) or 難木竹水 (XDHE), four-corner 4194₇, composition ⿰木反)

Derived characters

• 𥯈, 𨧸, 𫪒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 514, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14518
• Dae Jaweon: page 902, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1172, character 3
• Unihan data for U+677F

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 板
Warring States
Chu slip and silk script

Characters in the same phonetic series (反) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
扳	*praːn, *pʰraːn
板	*praːnʔ
版	*praːnʔ
瓪	*praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄	*praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑	*praːnʔ
蝂	*praːnʔ
眅	*pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪	*braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬	*braːnʔ
粄	*paːnʔ
反	*panʔ, *pʰan
返	*panʔ
坂	*panʔ
畈	*pans
販	*pans
汳	*pʰans
飯	*bonʔ, *bons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *praːnʔ) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Officially adopted as the simplified form of 闆 (etymology 2) in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme ((deprecated template usage) 《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Etymology 1

trad.		板
simp. #		板

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎn (ban³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baan²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pán

  (Teochew, Peng'im): boin² / bain² / bang²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǎn
    • Wade–Giles: pan³
    • Yale: bǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baan
    • Palladius: бань (banʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baan²
    • Yale: báan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ban²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pán
    • Tâi-lô: pán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: parn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pan⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: boin² / bain² / bang²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: póiⁿ / páiⁿ / páng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /põĩ⁵²/, /pãĩ⁵²/, /paŋ⁵²/

Note:

• boin2/bain2 - vernacular;
• bang2 - literary.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 板
Mandarin	Beijing	/pan²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/pan²¹³/
	Tianjin	/pan¹³/
	Jinan	/pã²¹³/
	Qingdao	/pã⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/pan⁵³/
	Xi'an	/pã⁵³/
	Xining	/pã⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/pan⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/pɛ̃n⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/pan⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/pan⁴²/
	Chengdu	/pan⁵³/
	Guiyang	/pan⁴²/
	Kunming	/pã̠⁵³/
	Nanjing	/paŋ²¹²/
	Hefei	/pæ̃²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pæ̃⁵³/
	Pingyao	/pɑŋ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/pæ̃⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/pe³⁵/
	Suzhou	/pe̞⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/pẽ̞⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/pa³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/pɛ³⁵/
	Tunxi	/puːə³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/pan⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/pan⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/pan²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/pan³¹/
	Taoyuan	/pɑn³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pan³⁵/
	Nanning	/pan³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/pan³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/pan⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/pɛiŋ³²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/paiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/paŋ⁵³/ /põi⁵³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ʔbaŋ²¹³/ /ʔbai²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: paenX

Rime
Character	板
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	布綰切
Baxter	paenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠanX/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚanX/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨnX/
Li Rong	/panX/
Wang Li	/panX/
Bernard Karlgren	/panX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baan2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.pˤranʔ/, /*pˤranʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*praːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	板	板
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǎn	bǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ pænX ›	‹ pænX ›
Old Chinese	/*C.pˁranʔ/	/*pˁranʔ/
English	plank, board	perverse
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	板
Reading #	1/1
No.	2953
Phonetic component	反
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	版
Old Chinese	/*praːnʔ/
Notes	同版

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 板

1. plank; board
2. iron or tin plate
3. (Internet) board (sub-unit of a larger BBS or imageboard)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 板 – see 闆 (“to look from a door”). (This character is the simplified form of 闆).

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

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

板

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ばん (ban, Jōyō)
• Kun: いた (ita, 板, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 板(はん)木(ぎ) (hangi)
• 板(ばん)木(ぎ) (bangi)
• 板(ばん)書(しょ) (bansho)
• 指(し)板(ばん) (shiban, “fingerboard”)
• 黒(こく)板(ばん) (kokuban, “blackboard”)
• 白(はく)板(ばん) (hakuban, “whiteboard”)
• 平(へい)板(ばん)型(がた) (heiban-gata)
• 平(へい)板(ばん)式(しき) (heibanshiki)
• 鉄(てっ)板(ぱん) (teppan, “griddle”)
• 鉄(てっ)板(ぱん)焼(や)き (teppan'yaki)
• 三(サン)板(パン) (sanpan), 舢(サン)板(パン) (sanpan, “sampan”)

Kanji in this term
板
いた Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Noun

板(いた) • (ita) 

1. plank, board
2. (cooking) Short for 俎板.
3. (cooking) Short for 板前.
4. (cooking) Short for 板場.
5. (Internet) board (sub-unit of a larger BBS or imageboard)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 板(いた)垣(がき) (itagaki)
• 板(いた)材(ざい) (itazai)
• 板(いた)の間(ま) (itanoma)
• 板(いた)場(ば) (itaba)
• 板(いた)挟(ばさ)み (itabasami)
• 板(いた)碑(び) (itabi)
• 板(いた)塀(べい) (itabei)
• 板(いた)前(まえ) (itamae)
• 板(いた)目(め) (itame)
• 押(おし)板(いた) (oshīta, “shoin style tokonoma”)
• 俎(まな)板(いた) (manaita)

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Korean

Hanja

板 • (pan) (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune–Reischauer p'an, Yale phan)

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Compounds

• 數板 (수판, supan)
• 算板 (산판, sanpan)
• 셈板 (셈판, sempan)
• 籌板 (주판, jupan)
• 珠板 (주판, jupan)
• 頂板 (정판, jeongpan)

See also

• 反
• 版

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 板 (ván, bản, bửng, phản)

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