蚌

蚌	U+868C, 蚌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-868C

← 蚋
[U+868B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蚍 →
[U+868D]

Translingual

Han character

蚌 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈手十 (LIQJ), four-corner 5510₀, composition ⿰虫丰)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 21
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32851
Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2836, character 5
Unihan data for U+868C

Chinese

trad.		蚌
simp. ^#		蚌
alternative forms		蜯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
邦	*proːŋ
梆	*proːŋ
垹	*proːŋ
肨	pʰroːŋs, pʰroːŋs
蚌	broːŋʔ, breːŋʔ
玤	*broːŋʔ
棒	*broːŋʔ
蜯	*broːŋʔ
琫	*poːŋʔ
菶	poːŋʔ, boːŋʔ
俸	poːŋʔ, boŋs
髼	*boːŋ
蜂	boːŋ, pʰoŋ
韸	*boːŋ
蓬	*boːŋ
篷	*boːŋ
唪	boːŋʔ, boŋʔ
埲	*boːŋʔ
丰	*pʰoŋ
妦	*pʰoŋ
仹	*pʰoŋ
峯	*pʰoŋ
峰	*pʰoŋ
鋒	*pʰoŋ
烽	*pʰoŋ
蠭	*pʰoŋ
桻	*pʰoŋ
莑	*pʰoŋ
夆	pʰoŋ, boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧	*pʰoŋʔ
逢	*boŋ
縫	boŋ, boŋs
漨	*boŋ
捀	boŋ, boŋs
奉	*boŋʔ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bàng, bèng (bang⁴, beng⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄤˋ, ㄅㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pong⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pǎng / pāng
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ban
Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): ban⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄤˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bàng
  - Wade–Giles: pang⁴
  - Yale: bàng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banq
  - Palladius: бан (ban)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bèng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bèng
  - Wade–Giles: pêng⁴
  - Yale: bèng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: benq
  - Palladius: бэн (bɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɤŋ⁵¹/

Note: bèng - variant reading and Mainland standard reading of 蚌埠 (Bèngbù).

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: pong⁵
  - Yale: póhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pong⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: pong⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔːŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǎng
  - Tâi-lô: pǎng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pāng
  - Tâi-lô: pāng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pang
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /paŋ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /paŋ²²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶ban
  - MiniDict: ban^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ban
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bã²³/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: ban⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pan²¹/

Middle Chinese: baewngX

Rime
Character	蚌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	步項切
Baxter	baewngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠʌŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚɔŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/bɔŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨwŋ^X/
Li Rong	/bɔŋ^X/
Wang Li	/bɔŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱɔŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bong⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤroŋʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*breːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蚌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bàng
Middle Chinese	‹ bæwng^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁroŋʔ/
English	oyster, mussel
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	蚌
Reading #	2/2
No.	3209
Phonetic component	丰
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*breːŋʔ/
Notes	同說文螷，由步項切訓讀

Definitions

蚌

common name for some bivalve molluscs
(obsolete) pearl
short for 蚌埠 (Bèngbù, “Bengbu”)

Synonyms

(bivalve molluscs): (Hokkien) 池刀; (Xiang) 飯示／饭示

Compounds

剖蚌求珠
明珠生蚌
河蚌 (hébàng)
珠蚌
瓦器蚌盤 / 瓦器蚌盘
老蚌生珠
蚌殼 / 蚌壳 (bàngké)
蚌珠
蛤蚌
鷸蚌相爭 / 鹬蚌相争 (yùbàngxiāngzhēng)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蚌 – see 螷 (“a long and narrow mollusc”). (This character is a variant form of 螷).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 蚌 – see 蜂 (“Apoidea or Vespa; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 蜂).

Japanese

Kanji

蚌

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ぼう (bō)
Kan-on: ほう (hō)
Kun: どぶが (dobuga)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

蚌: Hán Nôm readings: bạng

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References

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