苯

See also: 笨

苯 U+82EF, 苯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82EF ← 苮 [U+82EE] CJK Unified Ideographs 苰 → [U+82F0]

Translingual

Han character

苯 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿木一 (TDM), four-corner 4423₄, composition ⿱艹本)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1024, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30806
• Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3187, character 1
• Unihan data for U+82EF

Chinese

trad.		苯
simp. #		苯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
本	*pɯːnʔ
笨	*pɯːnʔ, *bɯːnʔ
苯	*pɯːnʔ
翉	*pʰɯːnʔ
体	*bɯːnʔ
鉢	*poːd
缽	*poːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pɯːnʔ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 本 (OC *pɯːnʔ).

Etymology

“benzene”

Borrowed from English benzene.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): běn (ben³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄣˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): bun²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): bon²

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): bung²
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵pen

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: běn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: běn
    • Wade–Giles: pên³
    • Yale: běn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: been
    • Palladius: бэнь (bɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun²
    • Yale: bún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: bon²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pᵘɔn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bung²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: púng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puŋ⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵pen
    • MiniDict: pen^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²pen
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pən³⁴/

Definitions

苯

1. (organic chemistry) benzene
2. Short for 苯教 (Běnjiào, “Bon (an indigenous religious tradition of Tibet)”).
3. Used in 苯䔿 (“luxuriant”).
4. Misspelling of 笨 (bèn, “stupid”).

Compounds

• 三聯苯／三联苯
• 乙苯 (yǐběn)
• 多氯聯苯／多氯联苯 (duōlǜliánběn)
• 氯苯 (lǜběn)
• 溴苯
• 甲苯 (jiǎběn)
• 異丙苯／异丙苯 (yìbǐngběn)
• 硝基苯 (xiāojīběn)
• 聚苯乙烯 (jùběnyǐxī)
• 聯苯／联苯 (liánběn)
• 苯丙胺 (běnbǐng'àn)
• 苯乙烯 (běnyǐxī)
• 苯乙酮 (běnyǐtóng)
• 苯乙酸
• 苯二氮䓬 (běn'èrdànzhuó)
• 苯基 (běnjī)
• 苯教 (Běnjiào)
• 苯環／苯环 (běnhuán)
• 苯甲酸 (běnjiǎsuān)
• 苯甲酸鈉／苯甲酸钠 (běnjiǎsuānnà)
• 苯甲醇 (běnjiǎchún)
• 苯甲醛 (běnjiǎquán)
• 苯酚 (běnfēn)
• 苯醌 (běnkūn)

 

Japanese

Kanji

苯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ほん (hon)
• Kan-on: ほん (hon)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

苯: Hán Nôm readings: bản

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