范

See also: 範

范 U+8303, 范 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8303 ← 茂 [U+8302] CJK Unified Ideographs 茄 → [U+8304]

Translingual

Han character

范 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿水尸山 (TESU), four-corner 4411₂, composition ⿱艹氾)

Derived characters

• 𣔶, 𡎊, 𦴮, 𭹬, 𧍙

Related characters

• 範 (Traditional form of 范, when not used as a surname)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1026, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30834
• Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3196, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8303

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 范
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
氾	*pʰoms, *bom
犯	*bomʔ
範	*bomʔ
范	*bomʔ
笵	*bomʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bomʔ): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 氾 (OC *pʰoms, *bom).

Etymology 1

trad.		范
simp. #		范

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fàn (fan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fam

  (Hailu, HRS): fam^˖

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fam⁴

• Northern Min (KCR): bìng
• Eastern Min (BUC): huâng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hang⁵ / buei⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huam⁶ / huang⁶

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ve

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fàn
    • Wade–Giles: fan⁴
    • Yale: fàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fann
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: faan⁶
    • Yale: faahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fam
    • Hakka Romanization System: fam
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fam⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fam⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: fam^˖
    • Sinological IPA: /fam³³/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fam⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fam⁵³/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁴²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: huâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huɑŋ²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hang⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haŋ¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hang⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haŋ²¹/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: buei⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bōiⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puei¹¹/

Note:

• hang5 - literary (incl. surname);
• buei5 - used in 前范 (a village in Dongpu, Xiuyu, Putian, Fujian).

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoān
    • Tâi-lô: huān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huam⁶ / huang⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huăm / huăng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huam³⁵/, /huaŋ³⁵/

Note:

• huam6 - Chaozhou;
• huang6 - Shantou.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ve
    • MiniDict: ve^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ve
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ve²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 范 (姓范)
Mandarin	Beijing	/fan⁵¹/
	Harbin	/fan⁵³/
	Tianjin	/fan⁵³/
	Jinan	/fã²¹/
	Qingdao	/fã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/fan³¹²/
	Xi'an	/fã⁴⁴/
	Xining	/fã²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/fan¹³/
	Lanzhou	/fɛ̃n¹³/
	Ürümqi	/fan²¹³/
	Wuhan	/fan³⁵/
	Chengdu	/fan¹³/
	Guiyang	/fan²¹³/
	Kunming	/fã̠²¹²/
	Nanjing	/faŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/fæ̃⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/fæ̃⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/xuɑŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/fæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ve²³/
	Suzhou	/ve̞³¹/
	Hangzhou	/vẽ̞¹³/
	Wenzhou	/va³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/fɛ²²/
	Tunxi	/fuːə²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/fan⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɸan⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/fan²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/fam⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/fɑm⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/fan²²/
	Nanning	/fan³³/
	Hong Kong	/fan²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/huan²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/huɑŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/piŋ⁴²/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/huaŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/faŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bjomX

Rime
Character	范
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	凡 (146)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	防錽切
Baxter	bjomX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨɐmX/
Pan Wuyun	/biɐmX/
Shao Rongfen	/biɐmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buamX/
Li Rong	/biɐmX/
Wang Li	/bĭwɐmX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯wɐmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faan6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b](r)omʔ/, /*[m-pʰ](r)omʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bomʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	范	范
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fàn	fàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjomX ›	‹ bjomX ›
Old Chinese	/*[b](r)omʔ/	/*[m-pʰ](r)omʔ/
English	(surname)	bee
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	范
Reading #	1/1
No.	2982
Phonetic component	氾
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	范
Old Chinese	/*bomʔ/

Definitions

范

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) bee

   alt. forms: 𧍙

2. Simplied form of 範 / 范 (fàn). Alternative of 笵 (fàn).
3. (～縣) Fan County, Fanxian (a county of Puyang, Henan, China)
4. a surname

   范仲淹  ―  Fàn Zhòngyān  ―  Fan Zhongyan (Song dynasty politician)

5. A respelling of the Dutch patronymic van

   范佩西  ―  Fàn Pèixī  ―  van Persie (Dutch football player)

Derived terms

• 小范
• 班范
• 范公堤
• 范履霜
• 范張雞黍 / 范张鸡黍
• 范進
• 蕭行范篆

Descendants

• → English: Fan

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 范 – see 範 (“mould; pattern; model; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 範).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Further reading

• “范”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

范

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぼん (bon)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: はち (hachi)、いがた (igata)、のり (nori)

Korean

Hanja

范 • (beom) (hangeul 범, revised beom, McCune–Reischauer pŏm, Yale pem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

范: Hán Nôm readings: phạm

1. Chữ Hán form of Phạm (“a surname from Chinese”).

   范五老 ― Phạm Ngũ Lão