# 吩

| 吩 | U+5429, &#21545; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5429 |
| ← 吨 [U+5428] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 吪 → [U+542A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

吩 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口金尸竹 (RCSH), four-corner 6802$_7$, composition ⿰口分)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 178, character 11
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3347
* Dae Jaweon: page 395, character 16
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 592, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5429

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 扮 | *prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ |
| 盼 | *pʰrɯːns |
| 頒 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 朌 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 鳻 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 份 | *prɯn, *bɯns |
| 汃 | *pʰreːd, *prɯn |
| 玢 | *prɯn |
| 邠 | *prɯn |
| 攽 | *prɯn |
| 砏 | *prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn |
| 貧 | *brɯn |
| 湓 | *pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns |
| 盆 | *bɯːn |
| 葐 | *bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn |
| 坌 | *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns |
| 坋 | *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns |
| 分 | *pɯn, *bɯns |
| 吩 | *pɯn |
| 粉 | *pɯnʔ |
| 黺 | *pɯnʔ |
| 芬 | *pʰɯn |
| 紛 | *pʰɯn |
| 衯 | *pʰɯn |
| 棻 | *pʰɯn, *bɯn |
| 氛 | *pʰɯn, *bɯn |
| 雰 | *pʰɯn |
| 忿 | *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ |
| 魵 | *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 汾 | *bɯn |
| 羒 | *bɯn |
| 枌 | *bɯn |
| 棼 | *bɯn |
| 妢 | *bɯn |
| 梤 | *bɯn |
| 馚 | *bɯn |
| 鼢 | *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 蚡 | *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 弅 | *bɯnʔ |
| 秎 | *bɯns |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fēn (fen$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fan$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hun / hoan
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fēn
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fen
*** Wade–Giles: fên$^1$
*** Yale: fēn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fen
*** Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /fən⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fan$^1$
*** Yale: fān
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fan$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fen$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɐn⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun / hoan
*** Tâi-lô: hun / huan
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hwn, hoafn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hun⁴⁴/, /huan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hun³³/, /huan³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hun⁴⁴/, /huan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hun⁴⁴/, /huan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hun⁴⁴/, /huan⁴⁴/
* hun - literary;
* hoan - vernacular.
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*pɯn/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 吩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3149 |
| Phonetic component | 分 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 分 |
| Old Chinese | /*pɯn/ |
| Notes | 分付之分今字 |

#### Definitions

吩
* Used in 吩咐 (fēnfù).
* Used in 吩呶.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fēn (fen$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fan$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fēn
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fen
*** Wade–Giles: fên$^1$
*** Yale: fēn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fen
*** Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /fən⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fan$^1$
*** Yale: fān
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fan$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fen$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɐn⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

吩
* Used in transcription.

#### Compounds

* 卟吩 (bǔfēn)
* 吩嗪 (fēnqín)
* 噻吩 (sāifēn)

### Etymology 3

* For pronunciation and definitions of 吩 – see 噴 (“to spurt; to gush; to jet out; to spray; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 噴).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* to instruct, to order

#### Readings

* Go-on: ふん (fun)
* Kan-on: ふん (fun)
* Kun: ふく (fuku, 吩く)、いいつける (ītsukeru, 吩ける)

### References

* ↑ “吩”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

## Korean
### Hanja

吩 • (bun) (hangeul 분, revised bun, McCune–Reischauer pun)
* to instruct, to order