# 范

| 范 | U+8303, &#33539; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8303 |
| ← 茂 [U+8302] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 茄 → [U+8304] |

## Translingual
### Han character

范 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿水尸山 (TESU), four-corner 4411$_2$, composition ⿱艹氾)

#### Derived characters

* 𣔶, 𡎊, 𦴮, 𭹬, 𧍙

#### Related characters

* 範 (Traditional form of 范, when not used as a surname)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1026, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30834
* Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 11
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3196, character 3
* Unihan data for U+8303

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 范
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 氾 | *pʰoms, *bom |
| 犯 | *bomʔ |
| 範 | *bomʔ |
| 范 | *bomʔ |
| 笵 | *bomʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bomʔ): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 氾 (OC *pʰoms, *bom).

### Etymology 1

* Fan (surname) (English)

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fàn (fan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): faan$^6$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): fam
    (Hailu, HRS): fam$^˖$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): fam$^4$
* Northern Min (KCR): bìng
* Eastern Min (BUC): huâng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hang$^5$ / bue$^5$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hoān
    (Teochew, Peng'im): huam$^6$ / huang$^6$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$ve
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fàn
*** Wade–Giles: fan$^4$
*** Yale: fàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fann
*** Palladius: фань (fanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /fän⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: faan$^6$
*** Yale: faahn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: faan$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fan$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /faːn²²/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fam
*** Hakka Romanization System: fam
*** Hagfa Pinyim: fam$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /fam⁵⁵/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: fam$^˖$
*** Sinological IPA: /fam³³/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: fam$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /fam⁵³/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bìng
*** Sinological IPA : /piŋ⁴²/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: huâng
*** Sinological IPA : /huɑŋ²⁴²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: hang$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /haŋ²¹/
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: bue$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /puei²¹/
* hang5 - literary (incl. surname);
* bue5 - used in 前范 (a village in Dongpu, Xiuyu, Putian, Fujian).
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit范 (姓范) |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /fan⁵¹/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /fan⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /fan⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /fã²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /fã⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /fan³¹²/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /fã⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /fã²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /fan¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /fɛ̃n¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /fan²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /fan³⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /fan¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /fan²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /fã̠²¹²/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /faŋ⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /fæ̃⁵³/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /fæ̃⁴⁵/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /xuɑŋ³⁵/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /fæ̃⁵⁵/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ve²³/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /ve̞³¹/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /vẽ̞¹³/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /va³⁵/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /fɛ²²/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | /fuːə²⁴/ |
| Xiang | Changsha | /fan⁵⁵/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /ɸan⁵⁵/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | /fan²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /fam⁵³/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | /fɑm⁵⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /fan²²/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /fan³³/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /fan²²/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /huan²²/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /huɑŋ²⁴²/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /piŋ⁴²/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /huaŋ³⁵/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /faŋ³⁵/ |
* Middle Chinese: bjomX
Rime :
| Character | 范 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 凡 (146) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 防錽切 |
| Baxter | bjomX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bɨɐm$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /biɐm$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /biɐm$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /buam$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /biɐm$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭwɐm$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱi̯wɐm$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | faan$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b](r)omʔ/, /*[m-pʰ](r)omʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*bomʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 范 | 范 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | fàn | fàn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bjom$^X$ › | ‹ bjom$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b](r)omʔ/ | /*[m-pʰ](r)omʔ/ |
| English | (surname) | bee |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 范 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2982 |
| Phonetic component | 氾 |
| Rime group | 談 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 范 |
| Old Chinese | /*bomʔ/ |

#### Definitions

范
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) bee
    alt. forms: 𧍙
* Simplied form of 範 / 范 (fàn). Alternative of 笵 (fàn).
* (～縣) Fan County, Fanxian (a county of Puyang, Henan, China)
* a surname
    范仲淹 ― Fàn Zhòngyān ― Fan Zhongyan (Song dynasty politician)
* A respelling of the Dutch patronymic van Wikipedia has an article on:van (Dutch) (English)
    范佩西 ― Fàn Pèixī ― van Persie (Dutch football player)

##### Derived terms

* 小范
* 班范
* 范公堤
* 范履霜
* 范張雞黍 / 范张鸡黍
* 范進
* 蕭行范篆

##### Descendants

* → English: Fan

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 范 – see 範 (“mould; pattern; model; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 範).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### Further reading

* “范”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぼん (bon)
* Kan-on: はん (han)
* Kun: はち (hachi)、いがた (igata)、のり (nori)

## Korean
### Hanja

范 • (beom) (hangeul 범, revised beom, McCune–Reischauer pŏm, Yale pem)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

范: Hán Nôm readings: phạm
* Chữ Hán form of Phạm (“a surname from Chinese”).
    范五老 ― Phạm Ngũ Lão