紛

See also: 纷

紛 U+7D1B, 紛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D1B ← 級 [U+7D1A] CJK Unified Ideographs 紜 → [U+7D1C]

Translingual

Han character

紛 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火金尸竹 (VFCSH), four-corner 2892₇, composition ⿰糹分)

Derived characters

• 蒶, 𫄐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 918, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27295
• Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3375, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7D1B

Chinese

trad.		紛
simp.		纷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 紛
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰɯn): semantic 糸 + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēn (fen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): hŭng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hun

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hung¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹fen

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• Mandarin
  • (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: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hŭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun
    • Tâi-lô: hun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hwn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hun³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hun⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hung¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹fen
    • MiniDict: fen^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹fen
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /fən⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: phjun

Rime
Character	紛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	撫文切
Baxter	phjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiun/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰun/
Li Rong	/pʰiuən/
Wang Li	/pʰĭuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰɯn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	紛
Reading #	1/1
No.	3155
Phonetic component	分
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	芬
Old Chinese	/*pʰɯn/
Notes	撫由府校改

Definitions

紛

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to disturb; to perturb
2. dispute; argument
3. disorderly
4. scattered; numerous
5. a surname

Compounds

• 七彩繽紛 / 七彩缤纷
• 亂紛紛 / 乱纷纷
• 五彩繽紛 / 五彩缤纷 (wǔcǎibīnfēn)
• 五色繽紛 / 五色缤纷
• 勞資糾紛 / 劳资纠纷
• 四紛五落 / 四纷五落
• 土雨紛紛 / 土雨纷纷
• 排難解紛 / 排难解纷
• 放紛 / 放纷
• 桃色糾紛 / 桃色纠纷
• 湎湎紛紛 / 湎湎纷纷
• 理紛解結 / 理纷解结
• 眾口紛紜 / 众口纷纭
• 眾說紛紜 / 众说纷纭 (zhòngshuōfēnyún)
• 碎紛紛 / 碎纷纷
• 糾紛 / 纠纷 (jiūfēn)
• 紛亂 / 纷乱 (fēnluàn)
• 紛亂無序 / 纷乱无序
• 紛呶 / 纷呶
• 紛喧
• 紛囂 / 纷嚣
• 紛如煙 / 纷如烟
• 紛屯 / 纷屯
• 紛帨 / 纷帨
• 紛披 / 纷披
• 紛拏 / 纷拿
• 紛擾 / 纷扰 (fēnrǎo)
• 紛更 / 纷更
• 紛歧 / 纷歧
• 紛沓 / 纷沓 (fēntà)
• 紛沓而來 / 纷沓而来
• 紛濁 / 纷浊
• 紛然 / 纷然
• 紛爭 / 纷争 (fēnzhēng)
• 紛爭不已 / 纷争不已
• 紛糅 / 纷糅
• 紛紅駭綠 / 纷红骇绿
• 紛紜 / 纷纭 (fēnyún)
• 紛紛 / 纷纷 (fēnfēn)
• 紛紛嚷嚷 / 纷纷嚷嚷
• 紛紛揚揚 / 纷纷扬扬 (fēnfēnyángyáng)
• 紛紛攘攘 / 纷纷攘攘
• 紛紛穰穰 / 纷纷穰穰
• 紛紛籍籍 / 纷纷籍籍
• 紛紛翼翼 / 纷纷翼翼
• 紛紜雜沓 / 纷纭杂沓
• 紛紛鬧鬧 / 纷纷闹闹
• 紛綸 / 纷纶
• 紛縕 / 纷缊
• 紛繁 / 纷繁 (fēnfán)
• 紛至沓來 / 纷至沓来 (fēnzhìtàlái)
• 紛若 / 纷若
• 紛華 / 纷华
• 紛葩 / 纷葩
• 紛雜 / 纷杂 (fēnzá)
• 紛飛 / 纷飞 (fēnfēi)
• 縝紛 / 缜纷
• 繽紛 / 缤纷 (bīnfēn)
• 聚訟紛紜 / 聚讼纷纭
• 色彩繽紛 / 色彩缤纷
• 解紛 / 解纷
• 謠言紛飛 / 谣言纷飞
• 謠諑紛傳 / 谣诼纷传
• 議論紛紛 / 议论纷纷 (yìlùnfēnfēn)
• 變亂紛乘 / 变乱纷乘
• 逢紛 / 逢纷

References

• “紛”, 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–

Japanese

Shinjitai	紛
Kyūjitai	紛

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 紛

紛

(Jōyō kanji)

1. distract
2. be mistaken for
3. astray

Readings

• Go-on: ふん (fun, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ふん (fun, Jōyō)
• Kun: まぎれる (magireru, 紛れる, Jōyō)、まぎらわす (magirawasu, 紛らわす, Jōyō)、まぎらわしい (magirawashii, 紛らわしい, Jōyō)、まぎらす (magirasu, 紛らす, Jōyō)、まがう (magau, 紛う)、まがい (magai)

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pun]
• Phonetic hangul: [분]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

紛

紛 (eumhun 어지러울 분 (eojireoul bun))

1. hanja form^? of 분 (“disorderly; scattered”)

Compounds

• 분쟁 (紛爭, bunjaeng, “dispute; conflict”)
• 분실 (紛失, bunsil, “loss of something”)
• 분란 (紛亂, bullan, “chaos”)

Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

紛: Hán Nôm readings: phân

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