販

See also: 贩

Translingual

Han character

販 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月金竹水 (BCHE), four-corner 6184₇, composition ⿰貝反)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1205, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36679
• Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3627, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8CA9

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Chinese

trad.		販
simp.		贩

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
扳	*praːn, *pʰraːn
板	*praːnʔ
版	*praːnʔ
瓪	*praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄	*praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑	*praːnʔ
蝂	*praːnʔ
眅	*pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪	*braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬	*braːnʔ
粄	*paːnʔ
反	*panʔ, *pʰan
返	*panʔ
坂	*panʔ
畈	*pans
販	*pans
汳	*pʰans
飯	*bonʔ, *bons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pans) : semantic 貝 (“cowry”) + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Etymology

The exoactive of 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan, “to return, lit. "to make someone return"”) (Schuessler, 2007).

STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *par (“to trade; to buy; to sell”), from which Tibetan ཕར (phar, “interest (on money); exchange”) is derived.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 販

1. to deal in; to trade in; to traffic
2. peddler; hawker; street merchant

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Japanese

Kanji

販

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ほん (hon)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kun: あきなう (akinau, 販う)

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Korean

Hanja

販 • (pan) (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune–Reischauer p'an, Yale phan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 販 (phiến, phán)

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