泛

泛

See also: 汎 and 氾

泛 U+6CDB, 泛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CDB ← 泚 [U+6CDA] CJK Unified Ideographs 泜 → [U+6CDC]

Translingual

Han character

泛 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水竹戈人 (EHIO), four-corner 3213₇, composition ⿰氵乏)

Derived characters

• 𭈠, 𣓦, 𥁷

References

• KangXi: page 616, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17298
• Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1569, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6CDB

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
砭	*prom, *proms
貶	*promʔ
窆	*proms
泛	*pʰoms, *bob
姂	*pʰoms, *bob, *kpʰob
䒦	*pʰom, *pʰoms
柉	*bom
覂	*poŋʔ
眨	*sproːb
鴔	*brub
乏	*bob

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰoms, *bob) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 乏 (OC *bob).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		泛
alternative forms		汎／泛 氾 滼

Sino-Tibetan. Compare Tibetan འབྱམ ('byam, “to flow over; to diffuse”) (Bodman, 1980).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): fàn (fan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ

  (Chengdu, SP): fan⁴

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou, Jyutping): faan³, faan⁶

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): fan⁵

• Gan (Wiktionary): fan⁵
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fam

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fam⁴

• Jin (Wiktionary): fan³
• Min Bei (KCR): huāng
• Min Dong (BUC): huáng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoàn / hàm / hoān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huam³ / huang³

• Wu (Wiktionary): fe (T2)
• Xiang (Wiktionary): fan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fàn
    • Wade–Giles: fan⁴
    • Yale: fàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fann
    • Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: fan⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: fan
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fan²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan³, faan⁶
    • Yale: faan, faahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan³, faan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan³, fan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn³³/, /faːn²²/

Note: faan6 - common variant in Hong Kong.

• • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: fan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fan³²/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: fan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fan¹¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fam
    • Hakka Romanization System: fam
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fam⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fam⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fam⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fam⁵³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: fan³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /fæ̃⁴⁵/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: huāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xuaŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: huáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huɑŋ²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn
    • Tâi-lô: huàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hàm
    • Tâi-lô: hàm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: haxm
    • IPA (Taipei): /ham¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ham⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /ham²¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoān
    • Tâi-lô: huān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoan
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /huan³³/

Note:

• hoàn - literary;
• hàm - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huam³ / huang³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huàm / huàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huam²¹³/, /huaŋ²¹³/

Note:

• huam3 - Chaozhou, Raoping, Jieyang;
• huang3 - Shantou, Chenghai, Chaoyang.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: fe (T2)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fe̞³⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: fan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɸan⁴⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰɨɐm^H/

Rime
Character	泛
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	凡 (146)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	孚梵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨɐmH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɐmH/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiɐmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuamH/
Li Rong	/pʰiɐmH/
Wang Li	/pʰĭwɐmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯wɐmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faan3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ(r)[o]m-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰoms/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	泛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fàn
Middle Chinese	‹ phjomH ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ(r)[o]m-s/
English	to float
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	泛
Reading #	1/2
No.	2844
Phonetic component	乏
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	汎
Old Chinese	/*pʰoms/

Definitions

泛

1. ^† to float on water; to drift
2. to spread out; to be suffused with
3. to flood; to overflow
4. superficial; non-specific
5. extensive; general; pan-
6. ^† careless; reckless

Compounds

平平泛泛 拍泛 挑泛 捻泛 梗泛 泛化 (fànhuà) 泛子 泛宅 泛常 泛指 (fànzhǐ) 泛泛 (fànfàn) 泛泛之交 (fànfànzhījiāo) 泛溢 (fànyì) 泛潮 泛索 泛舟 (fànzhōu)

泛起 泛音 (fànyīn) 活泛 浮家泛宅 浮泛 (fúfàn) 漂泛 科泛 空泛 (kōngfàn) 寬泛／宽泛 (kuānfàn) 廣泛／广泛 (guǎngfàn) 泛動／泛动 泛問／泛问 泛心論／泛心论 (fànxīnlùn) 泛泛之輩／泛泛之辈 泛泛而談／泛泛而谈 (fànfàn'értán) 泛濫／泛滥 (fànlàn)

泛濫成災／泛滥成灾 (fànlànchéngzāi) 泛神論／泛神论 (fànshénlùn) 泛紅／泛红 泛聲／泛声 泛脣泛舌／泛唇泛舌 泛覽／泛览 泛論／泛论 (fànlùn) 泛靈信仰／泛灵信仰 泛頭／泛头 泛駕之馬／泛驾之马 膚泛／肤泛 虛泛／虚泛 說泛／说泛 調泛／调泛 飄泛／飘泛

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (泛):

• → Japanese: 汎(はん) (han); 汎(ほん) (hon)
• → Korean: 범(泛) (beom)
• → Vietnamese: phiếm (泛)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		泛

From 覂 (OC *poŋʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fěng (feng³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung², fung³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fěng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fǒng
    • Wade–Giles: fêng³
    • Yale: fěng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feeng
    • Palladius: фэн (fɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung², fung³
    • Yale: fúng, fung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung², fung³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung², fung³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ³⁵/, /fʊŋ³³/

Definitions

泛

1. ^† to turn over; to topple over
2. ^† to be destroyed; to be defeated; to fall

Derived terms

泛卮

泛駕／泛驾

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		泛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fá (fa²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fá
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fá
    • Wade–Giles: fa²
    • Yale: fá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: far
    • Palladius: фа (fa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /bɨɐp̚/

Rime
Character	泛
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	凡 (148)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	房法切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨɐp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/biɐp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/biɐp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buap̚/
Li Rong	/biɐp̚/
Wang Li	/bĭwɐp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯wɐp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faat6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bob/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泛
Reading #	2/2
No.	2853
Phonetic component	乏
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	乏
Old Chinese	/*bob/

Definitions

泛

1. ^‡ The sound of water.

References

• “泛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02181

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Japanese

Kanji

泛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ふう (fū); ほん (hon)
• Kan-on: はん (han); ほう (hō)
• Kun: うかぶ (ukabu, 泛ぶ)

Usage notes

This character is not a modern Japanese character. It appears mostly in news reports of China or Taiwan issues. The character 汎 is the modern Japanese character which parallels this Chinese character in usage, such as in reports about the Pan-Blue Alliance written as 泛藍連盟 in Japanese news reports.

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Korean

Hanja

泛 • (beom, bong) (hangeul 범, 봉, revised beom, bong, McCune–Reischauer pŏm, pong, Yale pem, pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

泛: Hán Nôm readings: phiếm, phím, mẹp, phám

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