扮 · bàn
dress up; dress up as
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
dress up; dress up as
- Mandarin
- bàn
- Cantonese
- baan6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 扮 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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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
フン ケ ブン カイ ハン ヘン よそおう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.
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Reading sources explained
- 분
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
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+626E
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 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 扮
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 分 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 分聲
Line 3060 · ⿰扌分 · 分聲 · source reference 4411370
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- pjun · 府文 反切 · #459
- Middle Chinese
- xweaX · 花夥 反切 · #1422
- Middle Chinese
- pjunX · 方吻 反切 · #1500
- Middle Chinese
- bjunX · 房吻 反切 · #1501
- Middle Chinese
- peanH · 脯幻 反切 · #2690
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 3898 · pjun = 臻合三平文幫 · xweaX = 蟹合二上佳曉 · pjunX = 臻合三上文幫 · bjunX = 臻合三上文並 · peanH = 山開二去山幫
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
- bàn
- kCantonese
- baan6
- kDefinition
- dress up; dress up as
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 64.4
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:636
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- fěn,fēn,bàn,huǒ 31840.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bàn 0033.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bàn 010.090
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- ban(35) bàn(11)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- bàn粵baan6 bàn粵baan3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 府文 花夥 方吻 房吻 脯幻
- Kangxi positions
- 0418.200
- Guangyun positions
- 111.17 271.20 278.40 278.43 406.22
- GSR references
- 0471l
- Cangjie
- QCSH
- Four-corner
- 5802.7