藩

Translingual

Han character

藩 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿水竹田 (TEHW), four-corner 4416₉, composition ⿱艹潘)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1066, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32346
• Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3322, character 10
• Unihan data for U+85E9

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Chinese

trad.		藩
simp. #		藩

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pan, *ban) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 潘 (OC *pʰaːn)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fān, fán

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢ, ㄈㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoan / phoan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): puang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fān
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fan
    • Wade–Giles: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fan
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fán
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fán
    • Wade–Giles: fan²
    • Yale: fán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: farn
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän³⁵/
• 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 / phoan
    • Tâi-lô: huan / phuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoafn, phoafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁴⁴/, /pʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan³³/, /pʰuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan⁴⁴/, /pʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan⁴⁴/, /pʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴⁴/, /pʰuan⁴⁴/

Note:

• hoan - literary;
• phoan - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: puang¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phuang
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuaŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjon, pjon

Rime
Character	藩	藩
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/

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

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	藩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fān
Middle Chinese	‹ pjon ›
Old Chinese	/*par/
English	hedge, screen, fence
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	藩	藩
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2885	2909
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) 藩

1. fence

   藩籬／藩篱  ―  fānlí  ―  fence

2. (literary) boundary; border
3. vassal state
4. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

藩

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ほん (hon)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kun: まがき (magaki, 藩)

Suffix

藩(はん) • (-han) 

1. fiefdom, domain

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. fence, hedge
2. margin, boundary, border
3. marquisate
4. defence

Derived terms

• 藩國 (번국, beonguk) marquisate
  • cf. 蕃國 (번국, beonguk) foreign, barbarian country

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 藩 (phiên, phen, phiền, phồn, phên)

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References

• Nom Foundation