# 紛

| 紛 | U+7D1B, &#32027; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D1B |
| ← 級 [U+7D1A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 紜 → [U+7D1C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

紛 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火金尸竹 (VFCSH), four-corner 2892$_7$, composition ⿰糹分)

#### Derived characters

* 蒶, 𫄐

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 918, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27295
* Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3375, character 9
* Unihan data for U+7D1B

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 紛 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Chu slip and silk script | 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 *pʰɯn): semantic 糸 + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fēn (fen$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fan$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): hŭng
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hun
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hung$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$fen
* 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/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: hŭng
*** Sinological IPA : /huŋ⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun
*** Tâi-lô: hun
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hwn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hun⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hun³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hun⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hun⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hun⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: hung$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hung
*** Sinological IPA : /huŋ³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$fen
*** MiniDict: fen$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$fen
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /fən⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: phjun
Rime :
| Character | 紛 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 滂 (2) |
| Final (韻) | 文 (59) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 撫文切 |
| Baxter | phjun |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pʰɨun/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pʰiun/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pʰiuən/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pʰun/ |
| Li Rong | /pʰiuən/ |
| Wang Li | /pʰĭuən/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pʰi̯uən/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fēn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fan$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*pʰɯn/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 紛 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3155 |
| Phonetic component | 分 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 芬 |
| Old Chinese | /*pʰɯn/ |
| Notes | 撫由府校改 |

### Definitions

紛
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to disturb; to perturb
* dispute; argument
* disorderly
* scattered; numerous
* a surname

### Compounds

* 七彩繽紛 / 七彩缤纷
* 亂紛紛 / 乱纷纷
* 五彩繽紛 / 五彩缤纷 (wǔcǎibīnfēn)
* 五色繽紛 / 五色缤纷
* 勞資糾紛 / 劳资纠纷
* 四紛五落 / 四纷五落
* 土雨紛紛 / 土雨纷纷
* 排難解紛 / 排难解纷
* 放紛 / 放纷
* 桃色糾紛 / 桃色纠纷
* 湎湎紛紛 / 湎湎纷纷
* 理紛解結 / 理纷解结
* 眾口紛紜 / 众口纷纭
* 眾說紛紜 / 众说纷纭 (zhòngshuōfēnyún)
* 碎紛紛 / 碎纷纷
* 糾紛 / 纠纷 (jiūfēn)
* 紛亂 / 纷乱 (fēnluàn)
* 紛亂無序 / 纷乱无序
* 紛呶 / 纷呶
* 紛喧
* 紛囂 / 纷嚣
* 紛如煙 / 纷如烟
* 紛屯 / 纷屯
* 紛帨 / 纷帨
* 紛披 / 纷披
* 紛拏 / 纷拿
* 紛擾 / 纷扰 (fēnrǎo)
* 紛更 / 纷更
* 紛歧 / 纷歧
* 紛沓 / 纷沓 (fēntà)
* 紛沓而來 / 纷沓而来
* 紛濁 / 纷浊
* 紛然 / 纷然
* 紛爭 / 纷争 (fēnzhēng)
* 紛爭不已 / 纷争不已
* 紛糅 / 纷糅
* 紛紅駭綠 / 纷红骇绿
* 紛紜 / 纷纭 (fēnyún)
* 紛紛 / 纷纷 (fēnfēn)
* 紛紛嚷嚷 / 纷纷嚷嚷
* 紛紛揚揚 / 纷纷扬扬 (fēnfēnyángyáng)
* 紛紛攘攘 / 纷纷攘攘
* 紛紛穰穰 / 纷纷穰穰
* 紛紛籍籍 / 纷纷籍籍
* 紛紛翼翼 / 纷纷翼翼
* 紛紜雜沓 / 纷纭杂沓
* 紛紛鬧鬧 / 纷纷闹闹
* 紛綸 / 纷纶
* 紛縕 / 纷缊
* 紛繁 / 纷繁 (fēnfán)
* 紛至沓來 / 纷至沓来 (fēnzhìtàlái)
* 紛若 / 纷若
* 紛華 / 纷华
* 紛葩 / 纷葩
* 紛雜 / 纷杂 (fēnzá)
* 紛飛 / 纷飞 (fēnfēi)
* 縝紛 / 缜纷
* 繽紛 / 缤纷 (bīnfēn)
* 聚訟紛紜 / 聚讼纷纭
* 色彩繽紛 / 色彩缤纷
* 解紛 / 解纷
* 謠言紛飛 / 谣言纷飞
* 謠諑紛傳 / 谣诼纷传
* 議論紛紛 / 议论纷纷 (yìlùnfēnfēn)
* 變亂紛乘 / 变乱纷乘
* 逢紛 / 逢纷

### References

* “紛”, 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

| Shinjitai | 紛 |
| Kyūjitai | 紛 |

### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* distract
* be mistaken for
* astray

#### Readings

* Go-on: ふん (fun, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: ふん (fun, Jōyō)
* Kun: まぎれる (magireru, 紛れる, Jōyō)、まぎらわす (magirawasu, 紛らわす, Jōyō)、まぎらわしい (magirawashii, 紛らわしい, Jōyō)、まぎらす (magirasu, 紛らす, Jōyō)、まがう (magau, 紛う)、まがい (magai)

## Korean
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [pun]
* Phonetic hangul: [분]

### Hanja

Wikisource 紛 (eumhun 어지러울 분 (eojireoul bun))
* hanja form of 분 (“disorderly; scattered”)

#### Compounds

* 분쟁 (紛爭, bunjaeng, “dispute; conflict”)
* 분실 (紛失, bunsil, “loss of something”)
* 분란 (紛亂, bullan, “chaos”)

## Vietnamese
### Chữ Hán

紛: Hán Nôm readings: phân
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.