浜

See also: 濱

浜 U+6D5C, 浜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D5C ← 浛 [U+6D5B] CJK Unified Ideographs 浝 → [U+6D5D]

Translingual

Japanese	浜 浜
Simplified	滨 浜
Traditional	濱 浜

Han character

浜 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水人一金 (EOMC), composition ⿰氵兵)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 623, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17462
• Dae Jaweon: page 1021, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1627, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6D5C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		浜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
浜	*praːŋ, *praːŋʔ
捠	*praːŋ
兵	*praŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *praːŋ, *praːŋʔ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 兵 (OC *praŋ).

Etymology 1

From a Kra-Dai substrate, cognate with Thai บาง (baang).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bāng (bang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bong¹
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹pan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bang
    • Wade–Giles: pang¹
    • Yale: bāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bang
    • Palladius: бан (ban)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bong¹
    • Yale: bōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹pan
    • MiniDict: pan^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹pan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pã⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /pã⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: peang, paengX

Rime
Character	浜	浜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	布耕切	布梗切
Baxter	peang	paengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠɛŋ/	/pˠæŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚæŋ/	/pᵚaŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐŋ/	/paŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pəɨjŋ/	/paɨjŋX/
Li Rong	/pɛŋ/	/pɐŋX/
Wang Li	/pæŋ/	/pɐŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pæŋ/	/pɐŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bēng	běng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bang1	bang2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*praːŋ/, /*praːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	浜	浜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	862	864
Phonetic component	兵	兵
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	浜	浜
Old Chinese	/*praːŋ/	/*praːŋʔ/

Definitions

浜

1. small waterway

Compounds

• 洋涇浜 / 洋泾浜 (Yángjīngbāng)
• 洋涇浜英語 / 洋泾浜英语 (Yángjīngbāng Yīngyǔ)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 浜 – see 濱 (“shore; beach; coast; bank; to border on; to be adjacent to; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 濱).