琫

琫 U 742B, 琫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-742B ← 琪 [U 742A] CJK Unified Ideographs 琬 → [U 742C]

Translingual

Han character

琫 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉 8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土手大手 (MGQKQ), four-corner 1515₃, composition ⿰𤣩奉)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 735, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21068
• Dae Jaweon: page 1146, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1119, character 3
• Unihan data for U 742B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		琫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
邦	*proːŋ
梆	*proːŋ
垹	*proːŋ
肨	*pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌	*broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤	*broːŋʔ
棒	*broːŋʔ
蜯	*broːŋʔ
琫	*poːŋʔ
菶	*poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸	*poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼	*boːŋ
蜂	*boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸	*boːŋ
蓬	*boːŋ
篷	*boːŋ
唪	*boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲	*boːŋʔ
丰	*pʰoŋ
妦	*pʰoŋ
仹	*pʰoŋ
峯	*pʰoŋ
峰	*pʰoŋ
鋒	*pʰoŋ
烽	*pʰoŋ
蠭	*pʰoŋ
桻	*pʰoŋ
莑	*pʰoŋ
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧	*pʰoŋʔ
逢	*boŋ
縫	*boŋ, *boŋs
漨	*boŋ
捀	*boŋ, *boŋs
奉	*boŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): běng (beng³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bung²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: běng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: běng
    • Wade–Giles: pêng³
    • Yale: běng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beeng
    • Palladius: бэн (bɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɤŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bung²
    • Yale: búng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bung²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bung²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: puwngX

Rime
Character	琫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	邊孔切
Baxter	puwngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/puŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/puŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/puŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pəwŋX/
Li Rong	/puŋX/
Wang Li	/puŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/puŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	běng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bung2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤoŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*poːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	琫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	běng
Middle Chinese	‹ puwngX ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁoŋʔ/
English	scabbard ornament
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	琫
Reading #	1/1
No.	3210
Phonetic component	丰
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	琫
Old Chinese	/*poːŋʔ/

Definitions

琫

1. (literary) decoration on a knife carried on a girdle

References

• “琫”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

琫

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ほう (hō)、ふ (fu)

Korean

Hanja

琫 • (bong) (hangeul 봉)

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