蚌

蚌 U+868C, 蚌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-868C ← 蚋 [U+868B] CJK Unified Ideographs 蚍 → [U+868D]

Translingual

Han character

蚌 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈手十 (LIQJ), four-corner 5510₀, composition ⿰虫丰)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32851
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2836, character 5
• Unihan data for U+868C

Chinese

trad.		蚌
simp. #		蚌
alternative forms		蜯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
邦	*proːŋ
梆	*proːŋ
垹	*proːŋ
肨	*pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌	*broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤	*broːŋʔ
棒	*broːŋʔ
蜯	*broːŋʔ
琫	*poːŋʔ
菶	*poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸	*poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼	*boːŋ
蜂	*boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸	*boːŋ
蓬	*boːŋ
篷	*boːŋ
唪	*boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲	*boːŋʔ
丰	*pʰoŋ
妦	*pʰoŋ
仹	*pʰoŋ
峯	*pʰoŋ
峰	*pʰoŋ
鋒	*pʰoŋ
烽	*pʰoŋ
蠭	*pʰoŋ
桻	*pʰoŋ
莑	*pʰoŋ
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧	*pʰoŋʔ
逢	*boŋ
縫	*boŋ, *boŋs
漨	*boŋ
捀	*boŋ, *boŋs
奉	*boŋʔ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bàng, bèng (bang⁴, beng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄤˋ, ㄅㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pong⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pǎng / pāng
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ban
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): ban⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bàng
    • Wade–Giles: pang⁴
    • Yale: bàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banq
    • Palladius: бан (ban)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bèng
    • Wade–Giles: pêng⁴
    • Yale: bèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: benq
    • Palladius: бэн (bɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɤŋ⁵¹/

Note: bèng - variant reading and Mainland standard reading of 蚌埠 (Bèngbù).

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pong⁵
    • Yale: póhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pong⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: pong⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔːŋ¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǎng
    • Tâi-lô: pǎng
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pāng
    • Tâi-lô: pāng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pang
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /paŋ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /paŋ²²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ban
    • MiniDict: ban^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ban
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bã²³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: ban⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pan²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: baewngX

Rime
Character	蚌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	步項切
Baxter	baewngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠʌŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚɔŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/bɔŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨwŋX/
Li Rong	/bɔŋX/
Wang Li	/bɔŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱɔŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bong6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤroŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*breːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蚌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bàng
Middle Chinese	‹ bæwngX ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁroŋʔ/
English	oyster, mussel
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	蚌
Reading #	2/2
No.	3209
Phonetic component	丰
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*breːŋʔ/
Notes	同說文螷，由步項切訓讀

Definitions

蚌

1. common name for some bivalve molluscs
2. (obsolete) pearl
3. short for 蚌埠 (Bèngbù, “Bengbu”)

Synonyms

• (bivalve molluscs): (Hokkien) 池刀; (Xiang) 飯示／饭示

Compounds

• 剖蚌求珠
• 明珠生蚌
• 河蚌 (hébàng)
• 珠蚌
• 瓦器蚌盤 / 瓦器蚌盘
• 老蚌生珠 (lǎobàngshēngzhū)
• 蚌殼 / 蚌壳 (bàngké)
• 蚌珠
• 蛤蚌
• 鷸蚌相爭 / 鹬蚌相争 (yùbàngxiāngzhēng)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蚌 – see 螷 (“a long and narrow mollusc”). (This character is a variant form of 螷).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 蚌 – see 蜂 (“Apoidea or Vespa; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 蜂).

Japanese

Kanji

蚌

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. common name for some bivalve molluscs
2. the hamaguri, Meretrix lusoria

Readings

• Go-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: どぶがい (dobugai, 蚌)、からすがい (karasugai, 蚌)、はまぐり (hamaguri, 蚌)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
蚌
はまぐり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 蚌 – see the following entry.

【蛤はまぐり】H [noun] [from 934] a clam, Meretrix lusoria [noun] [from late Heian] the shell of a clam [noun] [from 1770] an inconsistency [noun] [from c. 1743] a pussy; a vulva (especially of a young woman) [noun] [from 1931] a geisha becoming a single one after deflowering [noun] [unspecified] a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) consisting of a clam-shaped butterfly, three clams in a circle, five clams, etc. [noun] [from 1500 (?)] abbreviation of 蛤刃 (hamaguriba, “a sharp but curved blade”) [noun] [unspecified] a 鷺流 (sagiryū) type of kyogen play Alternative spellings 文蛤, ハマグリ

(This term, 蚌, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲蚌”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

蚌 • (bang) (hangeul 방, revised bang, McCune–Reischauer pang, Yale pang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蚌: Hán Nôm readings: bạng

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References

• Nom Foundation