樊

樊 U+6A0A, 樊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A0A ← 樉 [U+6A09] CJK Unified Ideographs 樋 → [U+6A0B]

Translingual

Han character

樊 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木木大 (DDK), four-corner 4443₀, composition ⿱棥大)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 549, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15414
• Dae Jaweon: page 937, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1282, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6A0A

Chinese

trad.		樊
simp. #		樊
alternative forms		𤕩 棥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 樊
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
攀	*pʰraːn
襻	*pʰraːns
棥	*ban
礬	*ban
樊	*ban
蠜	*ban

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ban) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : phonetic 棥 (OC *ban) + semantic 𠬜.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fán (fan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁴, faan⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): huàng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hân / hoân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huang⁵ / huêng⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶ve

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fán
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fán
    • Wade–Giles: fan²
    • Yale: fán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: farn
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan⁴, faan⁶
    • Yale: fàahn, faahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁴, faan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁴, fan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²¹/, /faːn²²/

Note: faan6 - variant.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: huàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hân
    • Tâi-lô: hân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: haan
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /han²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân
    • Tâi-lô: huân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaan
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /huan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan¹³/

Note:

• hân - vernacular;
• hoân - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: huang⁵ / huêng⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huâng / huêng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ⁵⁵/, /hueŋ⁵⁵/

Note:

• huang5 - Shantou;
• huêng5 - Chaozhou.

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶ve
    • MiniDict: ve^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ve
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ve²³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjon

Rime
Character	樊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	附袁切
Baxter	bjon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bʉɐn/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷiɐn/
Shao Rongfen	/biuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buan/
Li Rong	/biuɐn/
Wang Li	/bĭwɐn/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯wɐn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ban/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	樊
Reading #	1/1
No.	2941
Phonetic component	棥
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	煩
Old Chinese	/*ban/

Definitions

樊

1. (literary) fence; hedge
2. (literary) to fence; to surround with a fence
3. a surname

   樊噲／樊哙  ―  Fán Kuài  ―  Fan Kuai (a military general of the early Western Han dynasty)

Compounds

• 柙虎樊熊
• 樊口 (Fánkǒu)
• 樊坡 (Fánpō)
• 樊城 (Fánchéng)
• 樊家巷 (Fánjiāxiàng)
• 樊樓／樊楼
• 樊江關／樊江关
• 樊然
• 樊營／樊营 (Fányíng)
• 樊籠／樊笼 (fánlóng)
• 樊籬／樊篱 (fánlí)
• 襄樊 (Xiāngfán)

 

Japanese

Kanji

樊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): はん (han)
• Kun: まがき (magaki)

Korean

Hanja

樊 • (beon) (hangeul 번, revised beon, McCune–Reischauer pŏn, Yale pen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

樊: Hán Nôm readings: phàn, phưng, phiền

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