棼

棼 U+68FC, 棼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68FC ← 棻 [U+68FB] CJK Unified Ideographs 棽 → [U+68FD]

Translingual

Han character

棼 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木金尸竹 (DDCSH), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱林分)

1. ridgepole
2. attic
3. sackcloth

Derived characters

• 𠾞

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 535, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14995
• Dae Jaweon: page 923, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1226, character 6
• Unihan data for U+68FC

Chinese

trad.		棼
simp. #		棼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 棼
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fén, fèn, fēn (fen², fen⁴, fen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣˊ, ㄈㄣˋ, ㄈㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fén
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fén
    • Wade–Giles: fên²
    • Yale: fén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fern
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèn
    • Wade–Giles: fên⁴
    • Yale: fèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenn
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵¹/
      
  • (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–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fan⁴
    • Yale: fàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: bjun

Rime
Character	棼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符分切
Baxter	bjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/biun/
Shao Rongfen	/biuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bun/
Li Rong	/biuən/
Wang Li	/bĭuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	棼
Reading #	1/1
No.	3172
Phonetic component	分
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	汾
Old Chinese	/*bɯn/

Definitions

棼

1. beams in the roof of a house
2. confused, disordered

Compounds

• 棼棼
• 治絲益棼 / 治丝益棼
• 治絲而棼 / 治丝而棼
• 貫手著棼 / 贯手著棼

Japanese

Kanji

棼

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. beams in the roof of a house confused
2. disordered

Readings

• On (unclassified): ふん (fun)、ぶん (bun)
• Kun: むなぎ (munagi)

Korean

Hanja

棼 (eum 분 (bun))

1. ridgepole
2. disorder

Vietnamese

Han character

棼: Hán Nôm readings: phân, phần

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References

• Nom Foundation