頒

See also: 朌 and 颁

頒 U+9812, 頒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9812 ← 頑 [U+9811] CJK Unified Ideographs 頓 → [U+9813]

Translingual

Han character

頒 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金竹一月金 (CHMBC), four-corner 8128₆, composition ⿰分頁)

Derived characters

• 𥂾

Related characters

• 颁 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1401, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43378
• Dae Jaweon: page 1917, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4362, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9812

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Chinese

trad.		頒
simp.		颁

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
扮	*prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ
盼	*pʰrɯːns
頒	*praːn, *bɯn
朌	*praːn, *bɯn
鳻	*praːn, *bɯn
份	*prɯn, *bɯns
汃	*pʰreːd, *prɯn
玢	*prɯn
邠	*prɯn
攽	*prɯn
砏	*prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn
貧	*brɯn
湓	*pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns
盆	*bɯːn
葐	*bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn
坌	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
坋	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
分	*pɯn, *bɯns
吩	*pɯn
粉	*pɯnʔ
黺	*pɯnʔ
芬	*pʰɯn
紛	*pʰɯn
衯	*pʰɯn
棻	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
氛	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
雰	*pʰɯn
忿	*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ
魵	*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
汾	*bɯn
羒	*bɯn
枌	*bɯn
棼	*bɯn
妢	*bɯn
梤	*bɯn
馚	*bɯn
鼢	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
蚡	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
弅	*bɯnʔ
秎	*bɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *praːn, *bɯn) : phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baan¹ / paan¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): pân

  (Meixian, Guangdong): ban¹

• Eastern Min (BUC): băng / păng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ban
    • Wade–Giles: pan¹
    • Yale: bān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
    • Palladius: бань (banʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baan¹ / paan¹
    • Yale: bāan / pāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baan¹ / paan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ban¹ / pan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn⁵⁵/, /pʰaːn⁵⁵/

Note: paan1 - variant (rare).

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pân
    • Hakka Romanization System: ban^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ban¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pan²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ban¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pan⁴⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: băng / păng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paŋ⁵⁵/, /pʰaŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pan
    • Tâi-lô: pan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pan⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: paen

Rime
Character	頒
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	布還切
Baxter	paen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠan/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨn/
Li Rong	/pan/
Wang Li	/pan/
Bernard Karlgren	/pan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baan1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤ<r>ə[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*praːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	頒
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bān
Middle Chinese	‹ pæn ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁ<r>ə[n]/ (MC F!)
English	distribute
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	頒
Reading #	1/2
No.	3130
Phonetic component	分
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	班
Old Chinese	/*praːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 頒

1. to confer; to bestow; to grant; to present

   頒獎／颁奖  ―  bānjiǎng  ―  to present a prize

2. to publish; to promulgate
3. Used in 頒白／颁白.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fén (fen²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fén
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fén
    • Wade–Giles: fên²
    • Yale: fén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fern
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fan⁴
    • Yale: fàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: bjun

Rime
Character	頒
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符分切
Baxter	bjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/biun/
Shao Rongfen	/biuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bun/
Li Rong	/biuən/
Wang Li	/bĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	頒
Reading #	2/2
No.	3169
Phonetic component	分
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	汾
Old Chinese	/*bɯn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 頒

1. ^† having a large head

   • 魚在在藻，有頒其首。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     鱼在在藻，有颁其首。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yú zài zài zǎo, yǒu fén qí shǒu. [Pinyin]

     The fish are there, there among the pondweed,
     Showing their large heads.

References

• “頒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Shinjitai	頒
Kyūjitai	頒

Kanji

頒

(Jōyō kanji)

1. distribute, partition

Readings

• Go-on: へん (hen)、ぶん (bun)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)、ふん (fun)
• Kun: わける (wakeru, 頒ける)、しく (shiku, 頒く)

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Korean

Hanja

頒 • (ban, bun) (hangeul 반, 분, revised ban, bun, McCune–Reischauer pan, pun, Yale pan, pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頒: Hán Nôm readings: ban

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