番

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try

HSK 6 N2

fān

バン

つが.い

번, 반

Depicts an animal's claw (釆) with their paw shown. 釆 also represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "animal's paw", now written as 蹯. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

釆 distinguish+ ◎ characterless component =

番 try

釆 Phonetic component

biàn distinguish

Used here to depict an animal's claw.

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◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts an animal's paw. Modern form looks like unrelated 田.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

番

Regular

Modern

Chinese

番 [Pān]

surname Pan

番 [fān]

foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort

Japanese

番ばん同音

noun

number (in a series)
(one's) turn
watch; guard; lookout
sumo bout; match

n-suf

rank; standing; position
pieces (in a collection)

番い、番つがい同音

noun

usually kana pair (esp. of mated animals); brace; couple
(anatomical) joint

Korean

번 [番]

Bound

beon; A bound noun used to indicate the sequence of a task.; beon; A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the frequency of a task.; beon; A bound noun indicating the number assigned to a person or thing.

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (3)

私の自宅の電話番号は市外局番が２０１で１２３ー４５６７番です。

My home phone number is, area code two-oh-one, one-two-three, four-five-six-seven.

６時からずっと待っているのだが、僕の番がまだ来ない。

I've been waiting since six o'clock and still my turn hasn't come.

ある種の鳥においては、周りの鳥たちやつがいに存在を知られていることが有利であると推測することができる。

We can conjecture that it may be advantageous for a particular bird to be known to its neighbors or its mate.

Japanese Names

番つがい

Tsugai surname

番ばん