膀 · bǎng
upper arm; shoulder; wing
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
upper arm; shoulder; wing
- Mandarin
- bǎng
- Cantonese
- bong2
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 膀 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
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.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
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
- 방
- 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+8180
- Radical
- 肉 · 130
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 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 膀
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 旁 sound component · Hill & List
The paper distinguishes direct phonetic 旁 from broader series membership under 方.
· §1, author preprint p.3 - 肉 semantic component · Hill & List
The apparent 月 shape is explained through graphical convergence with the 肉 component ⺼.
· §1, author preprint p.3 - 旁 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 旁聲
Line 9591 · ⿰肉旁 · 旁聲 · source reference 1350260
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
- bang · 步光 反切 · #856
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6935 · bang = 宕開一平唐並
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
- bǎng
- kCantonese
- bong2
- kDefinition
- upper arm; shoulder; wing
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 130.10
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:3134
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- páng,pāng,bǎng,bàng,pǎng 32104.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bǎng 0034.040 · bàng 0035.050 · pāng 0853.100 · páng 0854.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bǎng 011.070 · pāng 276.020 · páng 276.070
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- bǎng(182)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- bǎng粵bong2 páng粵pong4 pāng粵pong1