Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手金尸竹 (QCSH), four-corner 58027, composition)

  1. dress up
  2. dress up as

References

  • KangXi: page 418, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11829
  • Dae Jaweon: page 765, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1840, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+626E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

(jyutping baan3, baan6, Yale baan3, baan6)

Compounds


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Japanese

Kanji

  1. dress-up, disguise

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

From Middle Chinese, with the addition of Old Japanese  (su) for verb conjugation.  (su) eventually evolved into modern Japanese する (suru).

Pronunciation

Verb

+ する (irregular conjugation, hiragana ふんする, romaji fun suru)扮する 扮 suru

  1. to dress up in a disguise, to disguise oneself
    老人に扮して警察を逃げた。
    ろうじんにふんしてけいさつをにげた。
    Rōjin ni fun shite keisatsu o nigeta.
    He dressed up as / disguised himself as an old man and escaped from the police.
  2. to put on a costume, to play a role
    去年ハムレットに扮しました
    きょねんハムレットにふんしました
    Kyonen Hamuretto ni fun shimashita.
    Last year I played / took the role of Hamlet.

Conjugation


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Korean

Hanja

(hangeul , , revised bun, ban, McCune-Reischauer pun, pan, Yale pun, pan)


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Mandarin

Hanzi

(pinyin bàn (ban4), Wade-Giles pan4)


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Vietnamese

Han character

(ban, phẫn)

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