辦

See also: 辧, 辨, 辯, 瓣, and 办

Translingual

Han character

辦 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜十大尸十 (YJKSJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛力辛)

Derived characters

• 𥷁

Related characters

• 办 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1251, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38655
• Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4042, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8FA6

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Chinese

trad.		辦
simp.		办
alternative forms		办

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
辬	*praːn
瓣	*breːns
辦	*breːns
辨	*breːns, *brenʔ
辡	*prenʔ, *brenʔ
辯	*brenʔ
辮	*beːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *breːns) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 力 (“strength”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 辦

1. to deal with; to handle; to manage; to take care of

   沒辦法／没办法  ―  méibànfǎ  ―  there is no way to deal with this

   怎麼辦？／怎么办？  ―  Zěnmebàn?  ―  What do I do?

2. to prepare; to get something ready
3. to process; to obtain (e.g. a visa/passport)
4. to set up; to run
5. to bring to justice; to punish
6. Short for 辦公室／办公室 (bàngōngshì, “office”).

Synonyms

• (to deal with): 幹／干 (gàn), 搞 (gǎo), 整治 (zhěngzhì), 作 (zuò), 做 (zuò)

Further reading

• “Entry #11982”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

辦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. manage
2. do
3. handle
4. deal with

Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: つとめる (tsutomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

辦 • (pan, byeon) (hangeul 판, 변, revised pan, byeon, McCune–Reischauer p'an, pyŏn, Yale phan, pyen)

1. manage
2. do
3. handle
4. deal with

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 辦 (biện, bạn)

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