汎

See also: 泛

汎 U+6C4E, 汎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C4E ← 汍 [U+6C4D] CJK Unified Ideographs 汏 → [U+6C4F]

汎 U+2F8FA, 汎 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8FA ← 𣫺 [U+2F8F9] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𣲼 → [U+2F8FB]

Translingual

Han character

汎 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水竹弓戈 (EHNI), four-corner 3711₀, composition ⿰氵凡)

Derived characters

• 𡋋, 𣑃, 盕, 𫇼

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 604, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17120
• Dae Jaweon: page 998, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1553, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C4E

• Unihan data for U+2F8FA

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
嵐	*b·ruːm
葻	*b·uːm
釩	*pʰomʔ
汎	*pʰoms, *bum
凡	*bom
帆	*bom, *boms
颿	*bom, *boms
軓	*bomʔ
梵	*bloms, *bum
芃	*boːŋ, *bum
風	*plum, *plums
飌	*plum
楓	*plum
猦	*plum
偑	*plum
檒	*plum
瘋	*plum
諷	*plums
堸	*blum
渢	*blum
鳳	*bums

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰoms, *bum) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 凡 (OC *bom).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 汎 – see 泛 (“to float on water; to drift; to spread out; to be suffused with; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 泛).

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		汎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fàn (fan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fàn
    • Wade–Giles: fan⁴
    • Yale: fàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fann
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵¹/

Definitions

汎

1. a surname

Japanese

Kanji

汎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. extensive, general, pan-

Readings

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: ほん (hon)^{←ほん (fon, historical)←ほむ (fomu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)^{←はん (fan, historical)←はむ (famu, ancient)}
• On: ふう (fū); ほう (hō); ぶ (bu)
• Kun: あふれる (afureru, 汎れる); あまねく (amaneku, 汎く); あまねし (amaneshi, 汎し); うかぶ (ukabu, 汎ぶ); ひろい (hiroi, 汎い); ただよう (tadayou, 汎う)^{←ただよふ (tadayofu, 汎ふ, historical)}
• Nanori: ひろ (hiro); ひろし (hiroshi); ひろむ (hiromu); みな (mina)

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English pan-.

Prefix

汎(はん) • (han-) 

1. extensive; wide

Compounds

• 汎(はん)愛(あい) (han'ai) (氾(はん)愛(あい), 泛(はん)愛(あい))
• 汎(はん)化(か) (hanka) (般(はん)化(か))
• 汎(はん)交(こう) (hankō)
• 汎(はん)舟(しゅう) (hanshū) (泛(はん)舟(しゅう))
• 汎(はん)称(しょう) (hanshō) (泛(はん)称(しょう))
• 汎(はん)渉(しょう) (hanshō)
• 汎(はん)説(せつ) (hansetsu)
• 汎(はん)発(ぱつ) (hanpatsu)
• 汎(はん)汎(ぱん) (hanpan) (氾(はん)氾(ぱん), 泛(はん)泛(ぱん))
• 汎(はん)米(べい) (hanbei)
• 汎(はん)萍(ぺい) (hanpei)
• 汎(はん)用(よう) (han'yō): general use
• 汎(はん)濫(らん) (hanran) (氾(はん)濫(らん))
• 汎(はん)論(ろん) (hanron) (氾(はん)論(ろん), 泛(はん)論(ろん))
• 広(こう)汎(はん) (kōhan) (広(こう)範(はん))

 

Prefix

汎(はん) • (han-) 

1. pan-

   汎(はん)太(たい)平(へい)洋(よう)

   han-taiheiyō

   pan-Pacific

Compounds

• 汎(はん)心(しん)論(ろん) (hanshinron): panpsychism
• 汎(はん)神(しん)論(ろん) (hanshinron): pantheism

Korean

Hanja

汎 (eum 범 (beom))
汎 (eum 봉 (bong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

汎: Hán Nôm readings: phiếm

• synonym of 泛: phù phiếm : 浮汎

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References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999