磐

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 般 + semantic 石 (“stone”) – a massive rock, a boulder.

Han character

磐 (radical 112 石+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹水一口 (HEMR), four-corner 2760₁)

1. large rock, boulder
2. firm

References

• KangXi: page 834, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24401
• Dae Jaweon: page 1252, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2448, character 4
• Unihan data for U+78D0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

磐 (Yale pun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

磐 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: はん (han), ばん (ban)
• Kun: いわ (iwa)

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Korean

Hanja

磐 (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

磐 (pinyin pán (pan2), Wade-Giles p'an²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

磐 (bàn)

Last modified on 10 March 2011, at 15:27