泵

泵 U+6CF5, 泵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CF5 ← 泴 [U+6CF4] CJK Unified Ideographs 泶 → [U+6CF6]

Translingual

Han character

泵 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一口水 (MRE) or 難一口水 (XMRE), four-corner 1023₂, composition ⿱石水)

Derived characters

• 𫪴, 揼, 𦂥, 𨂽

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 619, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17343
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1576, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6CF5

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 石 (“stone”) + 水 (“water”).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		泵

Borrowed from English pump.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bèng (beng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bam¹, bung¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pāng / pōng / pǎng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bong⁵

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bèng
    • Wade–Giles: pêng⁴
    • Yale: bèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: benq
    • Palladius: бэн (bɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bam¹, bung¹
    • Yale: bām, būng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bam¹, bung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bem¹, bung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐm⁵⁵/, /pʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pāng
    • Tâi-lô: pāng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pang
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /paŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pōng
    • Tâi-lô: pōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pong
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǎng
    • Tâi-lô: pǎng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bong⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /poŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

泵

1. pump
2. to pump

Synonyms

• (pump): 泵浦 (bèngpǔ), 幫浦／帮浦 (bāngpǔ), 唧筒 (jītǒng)

Compounds

• 噴射泵／喷射泵
• 奶泵 (nǎibèng)
• 氣泵／气泵 (qìbèng)
• 氮泵 (dànbèng)
• 水泵 (shuǐbèng)
• 水錘泵／水锤泵
• 油泵
• 熱泵／热泵
• 真空泵 (zhēnkōngbèng)
• 泵房
• 泵把
• 泵柄
• 泵機／泵机
• 泵浦 (bèngpǔ)
• 泵站
• 泵車／泵车
• 鈉鉀泵／钠钾泵 (nàjiǎbèng)
• 離心泵／离心泵

 

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		泵
alternative forms		boom bum

Onomatopoeia; compare English boom.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bam⁴

---

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bam⁴
    • Yale: bàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐm²¹/

Definitions

泵

1. (Cantonese) Onomatopoeia for an explosion.

   泵一聲噉爆炸 [Cantonese, trad.]
   泵一声噉爆炸 [Cantonese, simp.]

   bam⁴ jat¹ sing¹ gam² baau³ zaa³ [Jyutping]

   to explode with a boom

References

• “泵”, 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–

Vietnamese

Han character

泵: Hán Nôm readings: bơm

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nôm Foundation