返

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返 U+8FD4, 返
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FD4
← 迓
[U+8FD3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 迕 →
[U+8FD5]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

返 (radical 162 辵+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹水 (YHE), four-corner 31304, composition ⿺辶反)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1254, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38758
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1737, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3820, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8FD4

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 返
alt. forms 𢓉
翻 (faan1) Cantonese
番 (faan1) Cantonese

Glyph origin[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • faan2 - literary;
  • faan1 - colloquial.
  • Hakka
  • Min Nan
    • Rime
    Character 返
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
    Final (韻) 元 (66)
    Tone (調) Rising (X)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 府遠切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/pʉɐnX/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/pʷiɐnX/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/piuɐnX/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/puanX/
    Li
    Rong         		/piuɐnX/
    Wang
    Li         		/pĭwɐnX/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/pi̯wɐnX/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		fǎn
    Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 返
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		fǎn
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ pjonX ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*Cə.panʔ/
    English return

    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 返
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 2969
    Phonetic
    component         		反
    Rime
    group         		元
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		反
    Old
    Chinese         		/*panʔ/

    Definitions[edit]

    返

    1. to return (to); to come or go back (to)
      alt. forms: 反
    2. to return; to give back
      alt. forms: 反
    3. (Cantonese) to go to
    4. (Cantonese) back
    5. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

    Synonyms[edit]

    • (to return):
    Dialectal synonyms of 回 (“to return; to come or go back to”) [map]
    Variety Location Words
    Classical Chinese 回、歸
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 回
    Mandarin Beijing 回
    Taiwan 回
    Chengdu 轉、回
    Cantonese Guangzhou 返
    Hong Kong 返
    Taishan 返
    Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 轉
    Liudui (S. Sixian) 歸
    Hsinchu (Hailu) 轉
    Dongshi (Dabu) 轉
    Zhuolan (Raoping) 轉
    Yunlin (Zhao'an) 轉
    Min Nan Xiamen 轉
    Quanzhou 轉
    Zhangzhou 轉
    Taipei 轉
    Kaohsiung 轉
    Tainan 轉
    Taichung 轉
    Hsinchu 轉
    Lukang 轉
    Sanxia 轉
    Yilan 轉
    Kinmen 轉
    Magong 轉
    Chaozhou 轉
    Shantou 轉
    Wu Wenzhou 走……轉

    Compounds[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    返

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. to come back, to return, to go back to

    Readings[edit]

    See also[edit]

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    返 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

    1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    返 (phản)

    1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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