泛

See also: 汎 and 氾

Translingual

Han character

泛 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水竹戈人 (EHIO), four-corner 3213₇)

1. to drift, float
2. careless, reckless
3. to be suffused with
4. general, non-specific
5. extensive
6. flood
7. pan-

References

• KangXi: page 616, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17298
• Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1569, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6CDB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		泛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fàn (fan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan³, fung², fung³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fann
    • IPA ^(key): /fa̠n⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan³, fung², fung³
    • Yale: faan, fúng, fung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan³, fung², fung³
    • IPA ^(key): /fɑːn³³/, /fʊŋ³⁵/, /fʊŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰɨɐm^H/, /bɨɐp̚/▼

Rime
Character	泛	泛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	凡 (146)	乏 (148)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	孚梵切	房法切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨɐmH/	/bɨɐp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɐmH/	/biɐp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiɐmH/	/biɐp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuamH/	/buap̚/
Li Rong	/pʰiɐmH/	/biɐp̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭwɐmH/	/bĭwɐp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯wɐmH/	/bʱi̯wɐp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fàn	fá

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*pʰ(r)[o]m-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰoms/, /*bob/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	泛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fàn
Middle Chinese	‹ phjomH ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ(r)[o]m-s/
English	to float
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	泛	泛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2844	2853
Phonetic component	乏	乏
Rime group	談	盍
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	汎	乏
Old Chinese	/*pʰoms/	/*bob/

Definitions

泛

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Derived terms

• 泛音 (fànyīn)

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Japanese

Kanji

泛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: はん (han), ほう (hō)
• Kun: うかぶ (ukabu)

Usage notes

This character is not a modern Japanese character. It appears mostly in new reports of China or Taiwan issues. The character 汎 is the modern Japanese character which parallels this Chinese character in usage, such as in reports about the Pan-Blue Alliance written as 泛藍連盟 in Japanese news reports.

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Hanja

泛 • ‎(beom, bong) (hangeul 범, 봉, revised beom, bong, McCune-Reischauer pŏm, pong, Yale pem, pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

泛 (phiếm, phím, mẹp)

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