泮

Translingual

Han character

泮 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水火手 (EFQ), four-corner 3915₀, composition ⿰氵半)

1. Zhou dynasty school
2. disperse
3. fall apart

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 618, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17323
• Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1593, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6CEE

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		泮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pàn (pan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pun³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pàn
    • Wade–Giles: pʻan⁴
    • Yale: pàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pann
    • Palladius: пань (panʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pun³
    • Yale: pun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pun³
    • Guangdong Romanization: pun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuːn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: phanH

Rime
Character	泮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	普半切
Baxter	phanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰuɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰwanH/
Li Rong	/pʰuɑnH/
Wang Li	/pʰuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pun3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泮
Reading #	1/1
No.	251
Phonetic component	半
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	判
Old Chinese	/*pʰaːns/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 泮

1. Zhou dynasty school
2. disperse
3. fall apart
4. (literary) to melt, dissolve

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Japanese

Kanji

泮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Zhou dynasty school
2. disperse
3. fall apart

Readings

• On (unclassified): はん (han)
• Kun: わかつ (wakatsu)

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Korean

Hanja

泮 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune–Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

1. melt

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 泮 (bợn, bẩn, bận, phán)

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