昉

昉 U+6609, 昉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6609 ← 昈 [U+6608] CJK Unified Ideographs 昊 → [U+660A]

Translingual

Han character

昉 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日卜竹尸 (AYHS), four-corner 6002₇, composition ⿰日方)

1. bright dawn, daybreak
2. appear

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 491, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13796
• Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1496, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6609

Chinese

simp. and trad.		昉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (方) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
縍	*paːŋ
榜	*paːŋʔ, *praːŋs, *braːŋ
蒡	*paːŋʔ, *braːŋ
牓	*paːŋʔ
螃	*paːŋʔ, *paːŋs, *baːŋ
搒	*paːŋs, *braːŋ
舫	*paːŋs, *paŋs
謗	*paːŋs
雱	*pʰaːŋ
磅	*pʰaːŋ, *pʰraːŋ
霶	*pʰaːŋ
滂	*pʰaːŋ
鎊	*pʰaːŋ
髈	*pʰaːŋʔ, *baːŋ
彷	*baːŋ, *pʰaŋʔ
趽	*baːŋ, *paŋ, *paŋs
房	*baːŋ, *baŋ
篣	*baːŋ, *braːŋ
騯	*baːŋ, *praːŋ, *braːŋ
傍	*baːŋ, *baːŋs
膀	*baːŋ
旁	*baːŋ
徬	*baːŋs
閍	*praːŋ
祊	*praːŋ
嗙	*praːŋ
方	*paŋ, *baŋ
汸	*paŋ
坊	*paŋ, *baŋ
邡	*paŋ, *pʰaŋs
枋	*paŋ
鈁	*paŋ
蚄	*paŋ
肪	*paŋ, *baŋ
鴋	*paŋ, *baŋ
牥	*paŋ
昉	*paŋʔ
瓬	*paŋʔ
放	*paŋʔ, *paŋs
倣	*paŋʔ
芳	*pʰaŋ
淓	*pʰaŋ
妨	*pʰaŋ, *pʰaŋs
紡	*pʰaŋʔ
仿	*pʰaŋʔ
髣	*pʰaŋʔ
鶭	*pʰaŋʔ
訪	*pʰaŋs
防	*baŋ, *baŋs
魴	*baŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǎng (fang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fǎng
    • Wade–Giles: fang³
    • Yale: fǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faang
    • Palladius: фан (fan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fong²
    • Yale: fóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pjangX

Rime
Character	昉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	陽 (106)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	分网切
Baxter	pjangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉɐŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷiɐŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/piuɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puaŋX/
Li Rong	/piuaŋX/
Wang Li	/pĭwaŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/piwaŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fǎng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fong2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*paŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*paŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	昉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fǎng
Middle Chinese	‹ pjangX ›
Old Chinese	/*paŋʔ/
English	just then, at that time
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	昉
Reading #	1/1
No.	3034
Phonetic component	方
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	昉
Old Chinese	/*paŋʔ/

Definitions

昉

1. (literary) to start

   • 正統之辨，昉於晉而盛於宋。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     正统之辨，昉于晋而盛于宋。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1902, Liang Qichao, 論正統

     Zhèngtǒng zhī biàn, fǎng yú Jìn ér shèng yú Sòng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

• 昉始
• 由昉

 

Japanese

Kanji

昉

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. bright
2. beginning

Readings

• On (unclassified): ほう (hō)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka)、はじめ (hajime)

Korean

Hanja

昉 • (bang) (hangeul 방, revised bang, McCune–Reischauer pang, Yale pang)

1. bright
2. begin

Vietnamese

Han character

昉: Hán Nôm readings: phưởng

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References

• Nom Foundation