Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 帆

Modern (Beijing) reading: fān

Preclassic Old Chinese: bram

Classic Old Chinese: bram

Western Han Chinese: bram

Eastern Han Chinese: bram

Early Postclassic Chinese: bam

Middle Postclassic Chinese: bam

Late Postclassic Chinese: bam

Middle Chinese: bwɨm

English meaning : sail [Han]

Comments: Also read fàn, MC bwɨ̀m, OC *bram-s 'to sail, go on sail'. Viet. buồm is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is phàm. For *bh cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou phaŋ², Fuzhou phuŋ², Jianou phoŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0625 d

Vietnamese reading: buồm

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *P(r)ɨ̆m

Meaning: sail

Chinese: 帆 *brǝm (~ -am) sail.

Burmese: phum classifier for nets, sails.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 265

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 帆

MC description : 咸合三平凡奉

ZIHUI: 1581 1648

Beijing: fan 12; fan 11

Jinan: fã 11

Xi'an: fã 11

Taiyuan: fä̃ 1

Hankou: fan 12

Chengdu: fan 12

Yangzhou: fɛ̃ 11

Suzhou: ve_ 12

Wenzhou: va 12

Changsha: fan 12

Shuangfeng: ɣuã 12

Nanchang: фuan 31

Meixian: fam 12

Guangzhou: fān 12

Xiamen: phɔŋ 12 (lit.); phaŋ 12

Chaozhou: huam 12

Fuzhou: xuaŋ 12

Shanghai: ve_ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: fan 12

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