Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 粉

Modern (Beijing) reading: fěn

Preclassic Old Chinese: pǝnʔ

Classic Old Chinese: pǝ́n

Western Han Chinese: pǝ́n

Eastern Han Chinese: pwǝ́n

Early Postclassic Chinese: pwɨ́n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: pwɨ́n

Late Postclassic Chinese: pwɨ́n

Middle Chinese: pǘn

English meaning : peeled grain

Russian meaning[s]: 1) пудра, мука (рисовая, картофельная, бобовая); порошок; 2) известка; 3) пудрить; 4) белить; штукатурить; 5) непристойный, неприличный; 6) дециметр

Comments: The later (and usual) meaning is 'flour'. The word is also used in compounds meaning 'noodles', thus it seems possible that Viet. bún 'vermicelli' is an independent loan from the same source.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 119

Four-angle index: 4197

Karlgren code: 0471 d

Vietnamese reading: phấn

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bŭn(H)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: dust, flour

Chinese: 粉 *pǝnʔ peeled grain; flour.

Tibetan: spun, sbun chaff, husks.

Burmese: phun dust.

Kachin: nbun³ dust.

Comments: Cf. Naga Zeme tin-bun 'ashes'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1023

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 粉

MC description : 臻合三上吻非

ZIHUI: 4720 2037

Beijing: fǝn 2

Jinan: fẽ 2

Xi'an: fẽ 2

Taiyuan: fǝŋ 2

Hankou: fǝn 2

Chengdu: fǝn 2

Yangzhou: fǝn 2

Suzhou: fǝn 2

Wenzhou: faŋ 21

Changsha: fǝn 2

Shuangfeng: xuan 2

Nanchang: фun 2

Meixian: fun 2

Guangzhou: fan 21

Xiamen: hun 2

Chaozhou: huŋ 21

Fuzhou: xuŋ 2

Shanghai: fǝŋ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: fǝn 2

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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *bV́nV

Meaning: dust, sand, flour

Sino-Tibetan: *bŭn(H)

Yenisseian: *pǝʔnVŋ

Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *pǝnVŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: sand; ashes

Ket: hʌnǝŋ⁵ 'sand'

Yug: fʌnɨŋ⁵ 'sand'

Kottish: fenaŋ, phenaŋ, *finaŋ, funaŋ, pl. fenaŋan "ashes"

Arin: finńaŋ (Ф.), fińaŋ (Ф., Срсл.), phińaŋ (М., Сл., Кл.) 'sand'

Pumpokol: pínniŋ (Сл., Срсл., Кл.) 'sand'

Comments: ССЕ 248. Pump. (Срсл., Кл.) fenɨg 'sand' is in reality Yug. Werner 1, 337-338 *p^hǝnǝŋ.