龐

See also: 龎, 厐, and 庞

Translingual

Han character

龐 (Kangxi radical 212, 龍+3, 19 strokes, cangjie input 戈卜月心 (IYBP), four-corner 0021₁, composition ⿸广龍)

1. disorderly, messy
2. huge, big
3. large house
4. face
5. shrine of the dragon god, house for dragon

Derived characters

• 𧕻

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1537, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48824
• Dae Jaweon: page 2077, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4804, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9F90

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Chinese

trad.		龐
simp.		庞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 龐
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
驡	*ʔslaːŋʔ, *roŋ
龐	*broːŋ
瀧	*rroːŋ, *sroːŋ, *roːŋ
籠	*roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *roŋ
豅	*roːŋ
朧	*roːŋ, *roŋs
龓	*roːŋ, *roːŋʔ
聾	*roːŋ
礱	*roːŋ, *roːŋs
嚨	*roːŋ
蘢	*roːŋ, *roŋ
櫳	*roːŋ
襱	*roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *r'oŋʔ
瓏	*roːŋ
曨	*roːŋ, *roːŋʔ
鸗	*roːŋ, *roŋ
蠪	*roːŋ
巃	*roːŋʔ
竉	*roːŋʔ
攏	*roːŋʔ
儱	*roːŋʔ, *roŋs
龍	*b·roŋ, *mroːŋ
躘	*roŋ, *roŋs
隴	*roŋʔ
壠	*roŋʔ
壟	*roŋʔ
寵	*r̥ʰoŋʔ
龏	*kloŋ, *kloŋs, *qroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *broːŋ) : semantic 广 (“house”) + phonetic 龍 (OC *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): páng (pang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pong⁴
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): pong²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phâng / pâng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pang⁵ / bong⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: páng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: páng
    • Wade–Giles: pʻang²
    • Yale: páng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: parng
    • Palladius: пан (pan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pong⁴
    • Yale: pòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔːŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: pong²
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰɔŋ¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phâng
    • Tâi-lô: phâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phaang
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /pʰaŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰaŋ¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pâng
    • Tâi-lô: pâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paang
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei): /paŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /paŋ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pang⁵ / bong⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phâng / pông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaŋ⁵⁵/, /poŋ⁵⁵/

Note:

• pang5 - literary;
• bong5 - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: baewng

Rime
Character	龐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	薄江切
Baxter	baewng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠʌŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚɔŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/bɔŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨwŋ/
Li Rong	/bɔŋ/
Wang Li	/bɔŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱɔŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	páng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pong4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤroŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*broːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	龐
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	páng
Middle Chinese	‹ bæwng ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁroŋ/
English	huge
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	龐
Reading #	1/1
No.	8409
Phonetic component	龍
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	龐
Old Chinese	/*broːŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 龐

1. huge; big
2. disorderly; messy
3. shape of the face; facial contours
4. a surname

Synonyms

• (huge):

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• 光大 (guāngdà)
• 宏大 (hóngdà)
• 寬大／宽大 (kuāndà)
• 寬闊／宽阔 (kuānkuò)
• 巨大 (jùdà)
• 廣／广
• 廣大／广大 (guǎngdà)
• 廣闊／广阔 (guǎngkuò)
• 龐大／庞大 (pángdà)
• 洪大 (hóngdà)
• 浩大 (hàodà)
• 無邊／无边 (wúbiān)
• 甚大 (shèndà) (literary)
• 莽莽 (mǎngmǎng)
• 蕩／荡 (dàng) (literary, or in compounds)
• 薄海 (bóhǎi) (literary, figurative, of an area)
• 遼闊／辽阔 (liáokuò)

 

• (shape of the face):

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• 臉龐／脸庞 (liǎnpáng)
• 臉盤／脸盘 (liǎnpán) (colloquial)
• 臉膛兒／脸膛儿 (liǎntángr) (Beijing Mandarin)
• 面龐／面庞 (miànpáng)
• 面架子 (⁶mi-ka-tsy) (Wu)

 

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

龐

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. disorderly
2. messy
3. huge
4. big

Readings

• Go-on: ぼう (bō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}; る (ru)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}; ろう (rō)
• Kun: たかどの (takadono)

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Korean

Hanja

龐 • (bang, nong) (hangeul 방, 농, revised bang, nong, McCune–Reischauer pang, nong, Yale pang, nong)

1. disorderly
2. huge, big
3. high

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 龐 (bàng)

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