# 坋

| 坋 | U+574B, &#22347; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-574B |
| ← 坊 [U+574A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 坌 → [U+574C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

坋 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土金尸竹 (GCSH), four-corner 4812$_7$, composition ⿰土分)

### Further reading

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 225, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4925
* Dae Jaweon: page 460, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 424, character 3
* Unihan data for U+574B

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 坋 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bèn, fèn (ben$^4$, fen$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄣˋ, ㄈㄣˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fan$^5$ / fan$^6$ / ban$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bèn
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bèn
*** Wade–Giles: pên$^4$
*** Yale: bèn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: benn
*** Palladius: бэнь (bɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pən⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fèn
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fèn
*** Wade–Giles: fên$^4$
*** Yale: fèn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenn
*** Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /fən⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fan$^5$ / fan$^6$ / ban$^6$
*** Yale: fáhn / fahn / bahn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fan$^5$ / fan$^6$ / ban$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fen$^5$ / fen$^6$ / ben$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɐn¹³/, /fɐn²²/, /pɐn²²/
* Middle Chinese: bjunX, bjunH
Rime :
| Character | 坋 | 坋 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 文 (59) | 文 (59) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 房吻切 | 扶問切 |
| Baxter | bjunX | bjunH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bɨun$^X$/ | /bɨun$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /biun$^X$/ | /biun$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /biuən$^X$/ | /biuən$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bun$^X$/ | /bun$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /biuən$^X$/ | /biuən$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭuən$^X$/ | /bĭuən$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱi̯uən$^X$/ | /bʱi̯uən$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fèn | fèn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fan$^6$ | fan$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːns/, /*bɯnʔ/, /*bɯns/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 坋 | 坋 | 坋 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 3147 | 3188 | 3193 |
| Phonetic component | 分 | 分 | 分 |
| Rime group | 文 | 文 | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 坌 | 憤 | 分 |
| Old Chinese | /*bɯːns/ | /*bɯnʔ/ | /*bɯns/ |
| Notes | 坌注或體 | | |

#### Definitions

坋
* (literary) dust; earth
* (historical dictionaries only) bank of earth
* (literary, of dust) to fly up or gather

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fèn (fen$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣˋ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fèn
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fèn
*** Wade–Giles: fên$^4$
*** Yale: fèn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenn
*** Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /fən⁵¹/

#### Definitions

坋
* Only used in 古坋 (“Gufen (a place in Fujian Province)”).

### Etymology 3

* For pronunciation and definitions of 坋 – see 𡊄 (“to sweep away”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 𡊄).

### References

* “坋”, 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)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ふん (fun)、ほん (hon)、ぼん (bon)
* Kun: ちり (chiri)、ふりかける (furikakeru)、かきまぜるつつみ (kakimazerutsutsumi)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

坋: Nôm readings: phân, phơn
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### References

* Nom Foundation