版

Translingual

Han character

版 (Kangxi radical 91, 片+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 中中竹水 (LLHE) or 中弓竹水 (LNHE) or 難中弓竹水 (XLNHE), four-corner 2104₇, composition ⿰片反)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 693, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19817
• Dae Jaweon: page 1106, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2015, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7248

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Chinese

trad.		版
simp. #		版

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 版
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 版

1. printing blocks

   銅版／铜版  ―  tóngbǎn  ―  copperplate

   活字版  ―  huózìbǎn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. edition

   英文版  ―  yīngwénbǎn  ―  English version

3. page (of a newspaper)

   頭版／头版  ―  tóubǎn  ―  front-page news

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Japanese

Kanji

版

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. edition, version
2. revision

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 版 (bản, bảng, bỡn, phản, ván)

1. copy, edition

Compounds

• 出版 (xuất bản)
• 版圖 (bản đồ)

Usage notes

• Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese equivalent is bản.

References

• www.chunom.org