畔

Translingual

Han character

畔 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 田火手 (WFQ), four-corner 6905₀, composition ⿰田半)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 760, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21801
• Dae Jaweon: page 1170, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2539, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7554

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		畔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 畔
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
半	*paːns
絆	*paːns
靽	*paːns
姅	*paːns, *pʰaːns
拌	*pʰaːn, *baːnʔ
拚	*pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
坢	*pʰaːnʔ
判	*pʰaːns
泮	*pʰaːns
頖	*pʰaːns
胖	*pʰaːns
冸	*pʰaːns
牉	*pʰaːns
柈	*baːn
伴	*baːnʔ, *baːns
叛	*baːns
畔	*baːns
袢	*ban

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *baːns) : semantic 田 (“field”) + phonetic 半 (OC *paːns).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 畔

1. boundary path dividing fields
2. bank; shore; edge

Usage notes

Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian ((deprecated template usage) 《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciation bàn.

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

畔

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ばん (ban)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kun: あぜ (aze, 畔); くろ (kuro, 畔); そむく (somuku, 畔く)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
畔
あぜ Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 畔 – see the following entry.

【あぜ】 [noun] 畔, 畦: ridge between rice fields; ridge between groves Alternative spelling 畦

(This term, 畔, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
畔
あ Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 畔 – see the following entry.

【あ】H [noun] (obsolete) ridge between rice fields; ridge between groves Alternative spelling 畦

(This term, 畔, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 畔 (bạn)

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