坋

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

Translingual

Han character

坋 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土金尸竹 (GCSH), four-corner 4812₇, composition ⿰土分)

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) (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 *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 分 (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)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	文 (59)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	房吻切	扶問切
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/
Bernhard 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	分	分
Rime group	文	文	文
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	坌	憤	分
Old Chinese	/*bɯːns/	/*bɯnʔ/	/*bɯns/
Notes	坌注或體

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 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (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