芬

芬 U+82AC, 芬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82AC ← 芫 [U+82AB] CJK Unified Ideographs 芭 → [U+82AD]

Translingual

Han character

芬 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 廿金尸竹 (TCSH), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹分)

References

• KangXi: page 1020, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30728
• Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3183, character 1
• Unihan data for U+82AC

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Chinese

trad.		芬
simp. #		芬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 芬
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
扮	*prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ
盼	*pʰrɯːns
頒	*praːn, *bɯn
朌	*praːn, *bɯn
鳻	*praːn, *bɯn
份	*prɯn, *bɯns
汃	*pʰreːd, *prɯn
玢	*prɯn
邠	*prɯn
攽	*prɯn
砏	*prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn
貧	*brɯn
湓	*pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns
盆	*bɯːn
葐	*bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn
坌	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
坋	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
分	*pɯn, *bɯns
吩	*pɯn
粉	*pɯnʔ
黺	*pɯnʔ
芬	*pʰɯn
紛	*pʰɯn
衯	*pʰɯn
棻	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
氛	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
雰	*pʰɯn
忿	*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ
魵	*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
汾	*bɯn
羒	*bɯn
枌	*bɯn
棼	*bɯn
妢	*bɯn
梤	*bɯn
馚	*bɯn
鼢	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
蚡	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
弅	*bɯnʔ
秎	*bɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰɯn): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēn (fen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fûn

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fun¹

• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hun

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fen
    • Wade–Giles: fên¹
    • Yale: fēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fen
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fûn
    • Hakka Romanization System: fun´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fun¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fun²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fun¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fun⁴⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun
    • Tâi-lô: hun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hwn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hun³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hun⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hung¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰɨun/

Rime
Character	芬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	撫文切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiun/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰun/
Li Rong	/pʰiuən/
Wang Li	/pʰĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰɯn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芬
Reading #	1/1
No.	3154
Phonetic component	分
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	芬
Old Chinese	/*pʰɯn/
Notes	撫原誤府依元泰定本校改

Definitions

芬

1. fragrance, aroma
2. fragrant
3. Short for 芬蘭／芬兰 (Fēnlán, “Finland”).

Compounds

• 佩西芬
• 巴拉芬
• 斯芬克士
• 清芬志
• 芬多精 (fēnduōjīng)
• 芬烈
• 芬芬
• 芬芳 (fēnfāng)

• 芬菲
• 芬葩
• 芬馥
• 芬郁 (fēnyù)
• 巴芬島／巴芬岛 (Bāfēn Dǎo)
• 紐芬蘭／纽芬兰 (Niǔfēnlán)
• 綏芬河／绥芬河 (Suífēnhé)
• 芬園／芬园 (Fēnyuán)

• 芬華／芬华
• 芬蘭／芬兰 (Fēnlán)
• 芬蘭浴／芬兰浴
• 芬鬱／芬郁
• 貝那芬托／贝那芬托
• 雙氯芬酸／双氯芬酸 (shuānglǜfēnsuān)
• 香氣芬馥／香气芬馥

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Japanese

Kanji

芬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ふん (fun)
• Kun: こうばしい (kōbashī, 芬ばしい); かおり (kaori, 芬り)

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Korean

Hanja

芬 • (bun) (hangeul 분, revised bun, McCune–Reischauer pun, Yale pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

芬: Hán Nôm readings: phân

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