潘

Translingual

Han character

潘 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水竹木田 (EHDW), four-corner 3216₉, composition ⿰氵番)

Derived characters

• 藩, 籓, 𤄤

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 649, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18236
• Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1745, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6F58

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Chinese

trad.		潘
simp. #		潘

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
皤	*paːl, *baːl
嶓	*paːl
番	*paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
播	*paːls
譒	*paːls
鄱	*baːl
潘	*pʰaːn
蟠	*baːn, *ban
磻	*baːn
蕃	*pan, *ban
轓	*pan, *pʰan
鱕	*pan
鐇	*pan, *ban
藩	*pan, *ban
籓	*pan
橎	*panʔ
翻	*pʰan
幡	*pʰan
飜	*pʰan
旛	*pʰan, *ban
繙	*pʰan, *ban
燔	*ban
蹯	*ban
膰	*ban
羳	*ban
鷭	*ban
璠	*ban
襎	*ban
墦	*ban

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pān (pan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pun¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phun / phoaⁿ / phoan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pung¹ / puan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pān
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pan
    • Wade–Giles: pʻan¹
    • Yale: pān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pan
    • Palladius: пань (panʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pun¹
    • Yale: pūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: pun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phun / phoaⁿ / phoan
    • Tâi-lô: phun / phuann / phuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phwn, phvoaf, phoafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰun⁴⁴/, /pʰuã⁴⁴/, /pʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰun³³/, /pʰuã³³/, /pʰuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰun⁴⁴/, /pʰuã⁴⁴/, /pʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰun⁴⁴/, /pʰuã⁴⁴/, /pʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰun⁴⁴/, /pʰuã⁴⁴/, /pʰuan⁴⁴/

Note:

• phun, phoaⁿ - vernacular;
• phoan - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: pung¹ / puan¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phung / phuaⁿ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuŋ³³/, /pʰũã³³/

Note: puan1 - vernacular (surname).

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• Middle Chinese: phan

Rime
Character	潘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	普官切
Baxter	phan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰuɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰwan/
Li Rong	/pʰuɑn/
Wang Li	/pʰuɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	潘
Reading #	1/1
No.	2877
Phonetic component	番
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	潘
Old Chinese	/*pʰaːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 潘

1. a surname
2. water in which rice has been rinsed
3. a river that flows into the Han
4. (Greek mythology) Pan

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Pua

Compounds

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #11192”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

潘

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. water in which rice has been washed

Readings

• Go-on: はん (han)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: しろみず (shiromizu, 潘)^{←しろみづ (siromidu, 潘, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

潘 • (ban, beon) (hangeul 반, 번, revised ban, beon, McCune–Reischauer pan, pŏn, Yale pan, pen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 潘 (phan, Phan)

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