奔 · bēn
run fast, flee; rush about; run
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
run fast, flee; rush about; run
- Mandarin
- bēn
- Cantonese
- ban1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 奔 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 분
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5954
- Radical
- 大 · 37
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 奔
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- pwon · 博昆 反切 · #496
- Middle Chinese
- pwonH · 甫悶 反切 · #2625
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4230 · pwon = 臻合一平魂幫 · pwonH = 臻合一去魂幫
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- bēn
- kCantonese
- ban1
- kDefinition
- run fast, flee; rush about; run
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 37.5
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:1049
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- bēn,bèn,fèn 10533.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bēn 0050.030 · bèn 0052.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bēn 015.150 · bèn 016.040
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- bēn(135) bèn(19)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- bēn粵ban1 bèn粵ban1,ban3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 博昆 甫悶
- Kangxi positions
- 0252.030
- Guangyun positions
- 119.44 400.07
- GSR references
- 0438a
- Cangjie
- KJT
- Four-corner
- 4044.4