鵬

See also: 鹏

鵬 U+9D6C, 鵬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D6C ← 鵫 [U+9D6B] CJK Unified Ideographs 鵭 → [U+9D6D]

Translingual

Han character

鵬 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月月竹火 (BBHF), four-corner 7722₇, composition ⿰朋鳥)

1. peng: fabulous bird of enormous size

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1492, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47005
• Dae Jaweon: page 2022, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4641, character 15
• Unihan data for U+9D6C

Chinese

trad.		鵬
simp.		鹏

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 鵬 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Peng (mythology) (English)

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
崩	*pɯːŋ
堋	*pɯːŋs, *pʰɯːŋ, *bɯːŋ
漰	*pʰɯːŋ
倗	*pʰɯːŋʔ, *bɯːŋ, *bɯːŋs
朋	*bɯːŋ
鵬	*bɯːŋ
棚	*bɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
鬅	*bɯːŋ
掤	*pɯŋ
淜	*bɯŋ
輣	*brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
繃	*prɯːŋ, *prɯːŋ
弸	*pʰrɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bɯːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic 朋 (OC *bɯːŋ, “phoenix”) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)

Etymology

This has been related to 風 (OC *plum, “wind”) (Schuessler, 2007) and also by Wang (1982) to 鳳 (OC *bums, “male fenghuang”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): péng (peng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paang⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): beng² / peng²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phêng / pêng / phn̂g

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pong⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ban

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: péng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: péng
    • Wade–Giles: pʻêng²
    • Yale: péng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: perng
    • Palladius: пэн (pɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: paang⁴
    • Yale: pàahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pang⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːŋ²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: beng²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: béng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: beng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛŋ²⁴/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: peng²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: péng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: peng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛŋ²⁴/

Note: peng2 - probably influeinced by Mandarin.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phêng
    • Tâi-lô: phîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pheeng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /pʰiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪŋ¹³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pêng
    • Tâi-lô: pîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peeng
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phn̂g
    • Tâi-lô: phn̂g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phngg
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰŋ̍²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pong⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰoŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ban
    • MiniDict: ban^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ban
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bã²³/

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• Middle Chinese: bong

Rime
Character	鵬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	步崩切
Baxter	bong
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bəŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/bəŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/bəŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bəŋ/
Li Rong	/bəŋ/
Wang Li	/bəŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱəŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	péng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pang4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鵬
Reading #	1/1
No.	9665
Phonetic component	朋
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	朋
Old Chinese	/*bɯːŋ/

Definitions

鵬

1. (Chinese mythology) peng (enormous bird)

   • 鵬之背，不知其幾千里也。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     鹏之背，不知其几千里也。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Péng zhī bèi, bùzhī qí jǐ qiān lǐ yě. [Pinyin]

     I don't know how many thousand li the Pengʹs back is.

Synonyms

• 大鵬／大鹏 (dàpéng)

See also

• 鯤／鲲 (kūn)

Compounds

• 大鵬 / 大鹏 (dàpéng)
• 萬里鵬程 / 万里鹏程
• 萬里鵬翼 / 万里鹏翼
• 酷鵬 / 酷鹏
• 鯤鵬 / 鲲鹏 (kūnpéng)
• 鯤鵬展翅 / 鲲鹏展翅
• 鵬圖 / 鹏图
• 鵬摶 / 鹏抟
• 鵬程萬里 / 鹏程万里 (péngchéngwànlǐ)
• 鵬舉 / 鹏举
• 鵬舉獎章 / 鹏举奖章
• 鵬鯤 / 鹏鲲
• 鵬鷃 / 鹏𮭨
• 鷃鵬 / 𮭨鹏
• 鷽鳩笑鵬 / 鸴鸠笑鹏 (xuéjiūxiàopéng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鵬):

• → Korean: 붕(鵬) (bung)
• → Vietnamese: bằng (鵬)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鹏”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 174.
• 莆田县县志編輯委員会 [Putian County Chronicle Editorial Committee], editor (1964), 莆田方言志（語音編） [Chronicle of Putian Dialect (Volume of Phonetics)] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min).