爿

Cantonese · source Jyutpingbaan6#

Meanings · baan6

  1. strip
  2. piece of split bamboo or chopped wood
  3. a strip
  4. piece
  5. unit, a quantifier for field, strips of land or bamboo, shops, stores, factories
Cantonese · source Jyutpingbaan2#

Meanings · baan2

  1. strip
  2. piece of split bamboo or chopped wood
  3. a strip
  4. piece
  5. unit, a quantifier for field, strips of land or bamboo, shops, stores, factories
Cantonese · source Jyutpingcoeng4#

Meanings · coeng4

  1. "piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片
  2. half of a tree trunk
Cantonese · source Jyutpingbaan6#

Meanings · baan6

  1. strip
  2. piece of split bamboo or chopped wood
  3. a strip
  4. piece
  5. unit, a quantifier for field, strips of land or bamboo, shops, stores, factories
Cantonese · source Jyutpingbaan2#

Meanings · baan2

  1. strip
  2. piece of split bamboo or chopped wood
  3. a strip
  4. piece
  5. unit, a quantifier for field, strips of land or bamboo, shops, stores, factories
Cantonese · source Jyutpingcoeng4#

Meanings · coeng4

  1. "piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片
  2. half of a tree trunk
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Same syllable, six tones

baan班baan1team板baan2boardbaan3—baan4—baan5—办baan6to do

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

  • 爿 qiáng CC-CEDICT · Mandarin"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片 piàn
  • 爿 pán CC-CEDICT · Mandarinclassifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc; slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: pan2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

baan6 · coeng4

Cantonese word readings for 爿. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

character · Etymology 1

  1. (dialectal) piece of wood or bamboo (made by chopping)
  2. (Hokkien) thin piece; slice
  3. (Southern Min, Eastern Min, Puxian Min, Wu) side
  4. (Hokkien, Eastern Min, Puxian Min, linguistics) radical
  5. (dialectal) Classifier for fields.
  6. (dialectal) Classifier for shops, factories, etc.
  7. (Hokkien) Classifier for slices.

character · Etymology 2

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) piece of wood (made by chopping)

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Mandarin comparison: CC-CEDICT 2026-10-13, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source reading differences and six-tone sets: computed by zimai from Unihan 17.0.0 (Unicode License V3).

Exact source records & identity爿 爿 [pan2] {baan6} /strip / piece of split bamboo or chopped wood/a strip / piece / unit, a quantifier for field, strips of land or bamboo, shops, stores, factories/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: e55c0d339fc1c3d4d193e0857d9ca244752d052872019a0c7f68434ba63937ae

爿 爿 [pan2] {baan2} /strip / piece of split bamboo or chopped wood/a strip / piece / unit, a quantifier for field, strips of land or bamboo, shops, stores, factories/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: ee833c0e4837ab325b94a761509e881db4fb4bdbbbb147ce93ceff12d13baf5c

爿 爿 [pan2] {coeng4} /"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片piàn [片]/half of a tree trunk/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: 07be29c968f77e48bd50197776746e56acabcbc94611e61493518b2e8ac0296b

爿 爿 [qiang2] {baan6} /strip / piece of split bamboo or chopped wood/a strip / piece / unit, a quantifier for field, strips of land or bamboo, shops, stores, factories/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: bfbb5763326538a9334b99b99ad947562d62444a216a3002a60152d85df8e215

爿 爿 [qiang2] {baan2} /strip / piece of split bamboo or chopped wood/a strip / piece / unit, a quantifier for field, strips of land or bamboo, shops, stores, factories/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: c2251facadb7423fa691d747fc42fe69d66fc25be9f5996afafcde0ae81cddd4

爿 爿 [qiang2] {coeng4} /"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片piàn [片]/half of a tree trunk/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: 4f96908c127d31db316af861cac370475557ed00ade92f1d086f3e1bb88e4d03