蕃

See also: 番

Translingual

Han character

蕃 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹木田 (THDW), four-corner 4460₉, composition ⿱艹番)

Derived characters

• 𪿾, 𧂵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1056, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31906
• Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3293, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8543

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Chinese

trad.		蕃
simp. #		蕃

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
皤	*paːl, *baːl
嶓	*paːl
番	*paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban
播	*paːls
譒	*paːls
鄱	*baːl
潘	*pʰaːn
蟠	*baːn, *ban
磻	*baːn
蕃	*pan, *ban
轓	*pan, *pʰan
鱕	*pan
鐇	*pan, *ban
藩	*pan, *ban
籓	*pan
橎	*panʔ
翻	*pʰan
幡	*pʰan
飜	*pʰan
旛	*pʰan, *ban
繙	*pʰan, *ban
燔	*ban
蹯	*ban
膰	*ban
羳	*ban
鷭	*ban
璠	*ban
襎	*ban
墦	*ban

Etymology

"luxuriant; numerous"

The same word as 繁 (OC *ban). Cognate with Tibetan དཔལ (dpal, “glory; splendor; abundance; magnificence”) (Unger, 1986).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fán, fān (fan², fan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˊ, ㄈㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoan / han / hoân / hân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fán
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fán
    • Wade–Giles: fan²
    • Yale: fán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: farn
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fān
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fan
    • Wade–Giles: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fan
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: faan⁴
    • Yale: fàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan / han / hoân / hân
    • Tâi-lô: huan / han / huân / hân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoafn, hafn, hoaan, haan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁴⁴/, /han⁴⁴/, /huan²⁴/, /han²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan³³/, /han³³/, /huan²⁴/, /han²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan⁴⁴/, /han⁴⁴/, /huan¹³/, /han¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan⁴⁴/, /han⁴⁴/, /huan²⁴/, /han²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴⁴/, /han⁴⁴/, /huan²³/, /han²³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjon, pjon

Rime
Character	蕃	蕃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	附袁切	甫煩切
Baxter	bjon	pjon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bʉɐn/	/pʉɐn/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷiɐn/	/pʷiɐn/
Shao Rongfen	/biuɐn/	/piuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buan/	/puan/
Li Rong	/biuɐn/	/piuɐn/
Wang Li	/bĭwɐn/	/pĭwɐn/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯wɐn/	/pi̯wɐn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fán	fān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faan4	faan1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*par/, /*[b]ar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pan/, /*ban/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蕃	蕃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fān	fán
Middle Chinese	‹ pjon ›	‹ bjon ›
Old Chinese	/*par/	/*[b]ar/
English	hedge, screen, fence	luxuriant (growth)
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	蕃	蕃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2881	2896
Phonetic component	番	番
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	蕃	煩
Old Chinese	/*pan/	/*ban/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蕃

1. luxuriant; lush
2. abundant; numerous
3. to breed; to multiply
4. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 藩 (fān, “to shield; to protect”).

Compounds

See also

• 土蕃
• 吐蕃 (Tǔbō)
• 西藏 (Xīzàng)

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Japanese

Kanji

蕃

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. grow thick and full (of plant growth)
2. multiply, increase

Readings

• Go-on: ほん (hon); ぼん (bon)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kan’yō-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru); ば (ba)

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Korean

Hanja

蕃 • (beon) (hangeul 번, revised beon, McCune–Reischauer pŏn, Yale pen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 蕃 (phen, phên, phiên)

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References

• Nom Foundation