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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: fén
Preclassic Old Chinese: bǝr
Classic Old Chinese: bǝn
Western Han Chinese: bǝn
Eastern Han Chinese: bwǝn
Early Postclassic Chinese: bwɨn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bwɨn
Late Postclassic Chinese: bwɨn
Middle Chinese: bün
English meaning : to gush forth
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0437 o
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[Pŭ]r
Meaning: gush forth, jet
Chinese: *bǝr gush forth, 瀵 *pǝrs source, spring, gush forth.
Burmese: panh to jet, gush forth.
Kachin: npun1 a spring, (H) kǝpun to spring, well.
Comments: Cf. *Pran.
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