盤桓

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Chinese

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dish; tray; to build
dish; tray; to build; to check; to examine; to transfer; (a measure word used for dishes of food or coils of wire); to coil
 
surname; Sapindus mukurosi
trad. (盤桓)
simp. (盘桓)
alternative forms 槃桓
磐桓

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (3) (33)
Final () (62) (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter ban hwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buɑn/ /ɦuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/bʷɑn/ /ɦʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/buɑn/ /ɣuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bwan/ /ɦwan/
Li
Rong
/buɑn/ /ɣuɑn/
Wang
Li
/buɑn/ /ɣuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱuɑn/ /ɣuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pán huán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pun4 wun4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
pán huán
Middle
Chinese
‹ ban › ‹ hwan ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˁan/ /*[ɢ]ʷˁar/
English tray, basin pillar; martial-looking

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 232 14004
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*baːn/ /*ɡʷaːn/
Notes

Verb

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盤桓

  1. to walk back and forth; to roam around
  2. to spiral around; to circle around
  3. to stay; to stop over
  4. (figurative) to hesitate; to be indecisive

Synonyms

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  • (to pace back and forth):
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  • (to stay):
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  • (to hesitate):
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Adjective

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盤桓

  1. (Classical) large

Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (盤桓):
  • Korean: 반환(盤桓) (banhwan)