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)

  1. return, revert to, restore

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.
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
  2. (Cantonese) to go to
  3. (Cantonese) back
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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

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)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

返 (phản)

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