泵

泵

泵 U+6CF5, 泵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CF5 ← 泴 [U+6CF4] CJK Unified Ideographs 泶 → [U+6CF6]

Translingual

Han character

泵 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一口水 (MRE) or X一口水 (XMRE), four-corner 1023₂, composition ⿱石水)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 619, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17343
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1576, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6CF5

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 石 (“stone”) + 水 (“water”).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		泵

Borrowed from English pump.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bèng (beng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bam¹, bung¹
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pāng / pōng / pǎng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bong⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bèng
    • Wade–Giles: pêng⁴
    • Yale: bèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: benq
    • Palladius: бэн (bɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bam¹, bung¹
    • Yale: bām, būng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bam¹, bung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bem¹, bung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐm⁵⁵/, /pʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pāng
    • Tâi-lô: pāng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pang
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /paŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pōng
    • Tâi-lô: pōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pong
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǎng
    • Tâi-lô: pǎng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bong⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /poŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

泵

1. pump
2. to pump

Synonyms

• (pump): 泵浦 (bèngpǔ), 幫浦／帮浦 (bāngpǔ), 唧筒 (jītǒng)

Compounds

奶泵 (nǎibèng) 水泵 (shuǐbèng) 油泵 泵房 泵把 泵柄

泵浦 (bèngpǔ) 泵站 真空泵 (zhēnkōngbèng) 噴射泵／喷射泵 氣泵／气泵 (qìbèng) 水錘泵／水锤泵

泵機／泵机 泵車／泵车 熱泵／热泵 鈉鉀泵／钠钾泵 (nàjiǎbèng) 離心泵／离心泵

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		泵
alternative forms		boom bum

Onomatopoeia; compare English boom.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bam⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bam⁶
    • Yale: bahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bem⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐm²²/

Definitions

泵

1. (Cantonese) Onomatopoeia for an explosion.

   泵一聲噉爆炸 [Cantonese, trad.]
   泵一声噉爆炸 [Cantonese, simp.]

   bam⁶ jat¹ seng¹ gam² baau³ zaa³ [Jyutping]

   to explode with a boom

References

• “泵”, 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–

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Vietnamese

Han character

泵: Hán Nôm readings: bơm

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References

• Nôm Foundation