坋

坋 U+574B, 坋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-574B ← 坊ぼう [U+574A] CJK Unified Ideographs 坌 → [U+574C]

Translingual

Han character

坋 (Kangxi radical 32, 土ど+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土ど金きん尸しかばね竹ちく (GCSH), four-corner 4812₇, composition ⿰土ど分ぶん)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 225, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4925
• Dae Jaweon: page 460, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 424, character 3
• Unihan data for U+574B

Chinese

trad.		坋
simp. #		坋

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 坋
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (分ぶん) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
扮ふん	*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
貧ひん	*brɯn
湓	*pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns
盆ぼん	*bɯːn
葐	*bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn
坌	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
坋	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
分ぶん	*pɯn, *bɯns
吩	*pɯn
粉こな	*pɯnʔ
黺	*pɯnʔ
芬	*pʰɯn
紛まがえ	*pʰɯn
衯	*pʰɯn
棻	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
氛	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
雰きり	*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 (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns) : semantic 土ど (“earth”) + phonetic 分ぶん (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bèn, fèn (ben⁴, fen⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄣˋ, ㄈㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan⁵ / fan⁶ / ban⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bèn
    • Wade–Giles: pên⁴
    • Yale: bèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: benn
    • Palladius: бэнь (bɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pən⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèn
    • Wade–Giles: fên⁴
    • Yale: fèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenn
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fan⁵ / fan⁶ / ban⁶
    • Yale: fáhn / fahn / bahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan⁵ / fan⁶ / ban⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen⁵ / fen⁶ / ben⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn¹³/, /fɐn²²/, /pɐn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: bjunX, bjunH

Rime
Character	坋	坋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	並なみ (3)	並なみ (3)
Final (韻いん)	文ぶん (59)	文ぶん (59)
Tone (調しらべ)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Closed	Closed
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	房ぼう吻切きり	扶問とい切きり
Baxter	bjunX	bjunH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨunX/	/bɨunH/
Pan Wuyun	/biunX/	/biunH/
Shao Rongfen	/biuənX/	/biuənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bunX/	/bunH/
Li Rong	/biuənX/	/biuənH/
Wang Li	/bĭuənX/	/bĭuənH/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯uənX/	/bʱi̯uənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fèn	fèn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan6	fan6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːns/, /*bɯnʔ/, /*bɯns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	坋	坋	坋
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	3147	3188	3193
Phonetic component	分ぶん	分ぶん	分ぶん
Rime group	文ぶん	文ぶん	文ぶん
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	坌	憤いきどお	分ぶん
Old Chinese	/*bɯːns/	/*bɯnʔ/	/*bɯns/
Notes	坌注ちゅう或ある體からだ

Definitions

坋

1. (literary) dust; earth
2. ^‡ bank of earth
3. (literary, of dust) to fly up or gather

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèn (fen⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèn
    • Wade–Giles: fên⁴
    • Yale: fèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenn
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵¹/

Definitions

坋

1. Only used in 古こ坋 (“Gufen (a place in Fujian Province)”).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 坋 – see 𡊄 (“to sweep away”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 𡊄).

References

• “坋”, in 漢語かんご多功たこう能のう字じ庫こ (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港ほんこん中ちゅう文ぶん大學だいがく (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

坋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ふん (fun); ほん (hon); ぼん (bon)
• Kun: ちり (chiri); ふりかける (furikakeru); かきまぜるつつみ (kakimazerutsutsumi)

Vietnamese

Han character

坋: Nôm readings: phân, phơn

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References

• Nom Foundation