粉

Translingual

Han character

粉 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火木金尸竹 (FDCSH), four-corner 9892₇, composition ⿰米分)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 907, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26872
• Dae Jaweon: page 1332, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3143, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7C89

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Chinese

trad.		粉
simp. #		粉

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
扮	*prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ
盼	*pʰrɯːns
頒	*praːn, *bɯn
朌	*praːn, *bɯn
鳻	*praːn, *bɯn
份	*prɯn, *bɯns
汃	*pʰreːd, *prɯn
玢	*prɯn
邠	*prɯn
攽	*prɯn
砏	*prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn
貧	*brɯn
湓	*pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns
盆	*bɯːn
葐	*bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn
坌	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
坋	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
分	*pɯn, *bɯns
吩	*pɯn
粉	*pɯnʔ
黺	*pɯnʔ
芬	*pʰɯn
紛	*pʰɯn
衯	*pʰɯn
棻	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
氛	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
雰	*pʰɯn
忿	*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ
魵	*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
汾	*bɯn
羒	*bɯn
枌	*bɯn
棼	*bɯn
妢	*bɯn
梤	*bɯn
馚	*bɯn
鼢	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
蚡	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
弅	*bɯnʔ
秎	*bɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pɯnʔ) : semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns) – face powder made of rice.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is the sense of "pink" derived from 粉紅色? + where did "粉紅色" come from?”)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 粉

1. face powder
2. powder

   麵粉是小麥做的粉。 [MSC, trad.]
   面粉是小麦做的粉。 [MSC, simp.]

   Miànfěn shì xiǎomài zuò de fěn. [Pinyin]

   Flour is a powder made from wheat.

3. food made from starch or flour (noodles, vermicelli, etc.)

   粉條／粉条  ―  fěntiáo  ―  Chinese vermicelli

   涼粉／凉粉  ―  liángfěn  ―  grass jelly

   河粉  ―  héfěn  ―  he fen noodles

4. bean or sweet potato noodles
5. (Cantonese, slang) heroin
6. to powder; to become powder
7. to whitewash
8. whitewashed; white
9. (～色) pink

   粉色  ―  fěnsè  ―  pink color

10. Short for 粉絲／粉丝 (fěnsī, “fan; fanatic”).
11. (neologism, slang) to be a fan of (someone); to admire

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 海洛因 (“heroin”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		海洛因, 海洛英
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	白麵兒, 老海 dated
	Taiwan	海洛因, 白粉
	Singapore	白粉
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	白麵兒, 老海
	Xi'an	白麵兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	白麵兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Dagudi (Maliba)	白粉
	Reshuitang (Longling)	白粉, 粉藥
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	白粉, 粉藥
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	白粉
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	白麵子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	白粉
	Hong Kong	海洛英, 白粉, 粉, 灰, 四仔
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	白粉
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	白粉
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	白粉
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	海洛英
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	白粉
	Móng Cái	白粉
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	白粉
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	海洛因
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	海洛因
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	海洛因
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	海洛因
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	海洛因
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	海洛因
	Senai (Huiyang)	白粉
Jin	Taiyuan	料子
	Xinzhou	料子
Southern Min	Xiamen	海洛因
	Singapore (Hokkien)	白粉
	Chaozhou	白粉
	Shantou	白粉
	Jieyang	白粉
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	白粉
	Pontianak (Teochew)	下洛因
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	白粉
Wu	Danyang	白粉, 白麵
	Wenzhou	白粉

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

粉

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. powder

Readings

• Go-on: ふん (fun, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ふん (fun, Jōyō)
• Kun: こ (ko, 粉, Jōyō); こな (kona, 粉, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 花(か)粉(ふん) (kafun)
• 小(こ)麦(むぎ)粉(こ) (komugiko)
• 薄(はく)力(りき)粉(こ) (hakurikiko)
• 中(ちゅう)力(りき)粉(こ) (chūrikiko)
• 強(きょう)力(りき)粉(こ) (kyōrikiko)
• 蕎(そ)麦(ば)粉(こ) (sobako)
• 片(かた)栗(くり)粉(こ) (katakuriko)
• 澱(でん)粉(ぷん) (denpun)
• 米(べい)粉(ふん) (beifun), 米(こめ)粉(こ) (komeko): rice flour
• 黄(き)な粉(こ) (kinako)
• 粉(こな)茶(ちゃ) (konacha): dust tea
• 白粉(おしろい) (oshiroi), 白(はく)粉(ふん) (hakufun)

• 天(てん)花(か)粉(ふん) (tenkafun), 天(てん)瓜(か)粉(ふん) (tenkafun)
• 粉(こな)薬(ぐすり) (konagusuri)
• 粉(こな)雪(ゆき) (konayuki)
• 製(せい)粉(ふん) (seifun)
• 受(じゅ)粉(ふん) (jufun)
• 骨(こっ)粉(ぷん) (koppun)
• 胡(ご)粉(ふん) (gofun)
• 鱗(りん)粉(ぷん) (rinpun)
• 金(きん)粉(ぷん) (kinpun)
• 銀(ぎん)粉(ぷん) (ginpun)
• 鉄(てっ)粉(ぷん) (teppun)
• 粉(ふん)砕(さい) (funsai)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
粉
こ Grade: 5
kun'yomi

⟨ko₁⟩ → */kwo/ → /ko/

From Old Japanese. Used phonetically to spell ko in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Noun

粉(こな) or 粉(こ) • (kona or ko) 

1. powder
2. flour

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
粉
こな Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Appears to be 粉 (ko, “powder”, see above) +‎ な (-na, suffixing element, meaning unclear).

Noun

粉(こな) • (kona) 

1. powder
2. flour

Synonyms

• パウダー (paudā)

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Korean

Hanja

粉 • (bun) (hangeul 분, revised bun, McCune–Reischauer pun, Yale pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 粉 (phấn)

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