# 鵬

| 鵬 | U+9D6C, &#40300; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D6C |
| ← 鵫 [U+9D6B] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鵭 → [U+9D6D] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鵬 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月月竹火 (BBHF), four-corner 7722$_7$, composition ⿰朋鳥)
* peng: fabulous bird of enormous size

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1492, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47005
* Dae Jaweon: page 2022, character 13
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4641, character 15
* Unihan data for U+9D6C

## Chinese

* 鵬 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Peng (mythology) (English)

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 崩 | *pɯːŋ |
| 堋 | *pɯːŋs, *pʰɯːŋ, *bɯːŋ |
| 漰 | *pʰɯːŋ |
| 倗 | *pʰɯːŋʔ, *bɯːŋ, *bɯːŋs |
| 朋 | *bɯːŋ |
| 鵬 | *bɯːŋ |
| 棚 | *bɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ |
| 鬅 | *bɯːŋ |
| 掤 | *pɯŋ |
| 淜 | *bɯŋ |
| 輣 | *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ |
| 繃 | *prɯːŋ, *prɯːŋ |
| 弸 | *pʰrɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bɯːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic 朋 (OC *bɯːŋ, “phoenix”) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)

### Etymology

This has been related to 風 (OC *plum, “wind”) (Schuessler, 2007) and also by Wang (1982) to 鳳 (OC *bums, “male fenghuang”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): péng (peng$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): paang$^4$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): beng$^2$ / peng$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): phêng / pêng / phn̂g
    (Teochew, Peng'im): pong$^5$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$ban
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: péng
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: péng
*** Wade–Giles: pʻêng$^2$
*** Yale: péng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: perng
*** Palladius: пэн (pɛn)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɤŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: paang$^4$
*** Yale: pàahng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: paang$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pang$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰaːŋ²¹/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: beng$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɛŋ¹³/
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: peng$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɛŋ¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phêng
*** Tâi-lô: phîng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pheeng
*** IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /pʰiɪŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪŋ¹³/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pêng
*** Tâi-lô: pîng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: peeng
*** IPA (Taipei): /piɪŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ²³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phn̂g
*** Tâi-lô: phn̂g
*** Phofsit Daibuun: phngg
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰŋ̍²⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: pong$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phông
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰoŋ⁵⁵/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$ban
*** MiniDict: ban$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$ban
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bã²³/
* Middle Chinese: bong
Rime :
| Character | 鵬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 登 (129) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 步崩切 |
| Baxter | bong |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bəŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bəŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bəŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bəŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /bəŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /bəŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱəŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | péng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | pang$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*bɯːŋ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 鵬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9665 |
| Phonetic component | 朋 |
| Rime group | 蒸 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 朋 |
| Old Chinese | /*bɯːŋ/ |

### Definitions

鵬
* (Chinese mythology) peng (enormous bird)
    From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE
    Péng zhī bèi, bùzhī qí jǐ qiān lǐ yě. [Pinyin]
    I don't know how many thousand li the Pengʹs back is.

#### Synonyms

* 大鵬／大鹏 (dàpéng)

#### See also

* 鯤／鲲 (kūn)

#### Compounds

* 大鵬 / 大鹏 (dàpéng)
* 萬里鵬程 / 万里鹏程
* 萬里鵬翼 / 万里鹏翼
* 酷鵬 / 酷鹏
* 鯤鵬 / 鲲鹏 (kūnpéng)
* 鯤鵬展翅 / 鲲鹏展翅
* 鵬圖 / 鹏图
* 鵬摶 / 鹏抟
* 鵬程萬里 / 鹏程万里 (péngchéngwànlǐ)
* 鵬舉 / 鹏举
* 鵬舉獎章 / 鹏举奖章
* 鵬鯤 / 鹏鲲
* 鵬鷃 / 鹏𮭨
* 鷃鵬 / 𮭨鹏
* 鷽鳩笑鵬 / 鸴鸠笑鹏 (xuéjiūxiàopéng)

### Descendants

* → Korean: 붕(鵬) (bung)
* → Vietnamese: bằng (鵬)

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鹏”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 174.
* 莆田县县志編輯委員会 [Putian County Chronicle Editorial Committee], editor (1964), 莆田方言志（語音編） [Chronicle of Putian Dialect (Volume of Phonetics)] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min).

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 鵬 |
| Kyūjitai | 鵬󠄁 鵬+&#xE0101; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 鵬󠄃 鵬+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* peng (fabled large bird)

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぼう (bō)
* Kan-on: ほう (hō)
* Kun: おおとり (ōtori, 鵬)
* Nanori: とも (tomo)、ゆき (yuki)

#### Compounds

* 鵬程(ほうてい) (hōtei, “large distance”)
* 鵬図(ほうと) (hōto, “large scheme”)
* 鵬翼(ほうよく) (hōyoku, “wings of an aircraft; aircraft”, literally “wings of a peng”)
* 大鵬(たいほう) (taihō, literally “big peng”)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 鵬
* ほう Jinmeiyō
* kan'on
From Middle Chinese 鵬 (MC bong).

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ほー [hóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [ho̞ː]

#### Noun

鵬(ほう) or 鵬(ぼう) • (hō or bō)
* (Chinese mythology) peng: a fabled large bird thought to have wings measuring 3,000 li and can soar up to 90,000 li
    Synonym: 大鳥 (ōtori)

##### Idioms

* 鯤鵬(こんほう) (konhō, “something extremely large”, literally “kun (large mythical fish) and peng (large mythical bird)”)

##### See also

* 鯤(こん) (kon, “kun (large mythical fish)”)
* 鳳凰(ほうおう) (hōō, “fenghuang (a fabled Chinese fire-bird)”)

#### Proper noun

鵬(ほう) • (Hō)
* a male or female given name

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 鵬
* おおとり Jinmeiyō
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鵬 – see the following entry. :
| 【おおとり】 | [noun] any large bird (crane, stork, swan, etc.) [noun] any majestic bird of legend (peng, fenghuang, phoenix, roc, etc.) [proper noun] 鵬: a surname Alternative spellings 大鳥, 鳳, 鴻 |
(This term, 鵬, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### References

* ↑ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2409 (paper), page 1256 (digital)
* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

鵬 (eumhun 대붕 붕 (daebung bung))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

鵬: Hán Nôm readings: bằng, bành
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