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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lan
Meaning: turn
Tibetan: lan time, times; answer; glan to return; to patch, botch, mend; klon, klan, lhan to mend, patch; rlon answer; glon answer; patch, mend; slan, slon to mend, patch; lhon to return.
Burmese: lan turn around (intr.); hlan turn around, over (tr.); pran (OB plan) return; lwan to twist (Luce 55).
Comments: Cf. also Tib. ldon give or pay back.
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Character: 反
Modern (Beijing) reading: fǎn
Preclassic Old Chinese: p(l)anʔ
Classic Old Chinese: pán
Western Han Chinese: pán
Eastern Han Chinese: pwán
Early Postclassic Chinese: pwán
Middle Postclassic Chinese: pwǝ́n
Late Postclassic Chinese: pwǝ́n
Middle Chinese: pwǝ́n
English meaning : to turn, return, turn around, turn against; on the contrary, on the other hand, in return, however
Russian meaning[s]: 1) перевернуть; оборотная сторона; обратный, противоположный; напротив; 2) бороться с...; выступать (повернуть) против; против, анти-, контр-; борьба с...; 3) восстать, поднять бунт; изменить; 4) возвращаться; идти назад; обернуться; 5) брать назад (слово); передумывать; отменить (решение); 6) возвращать, отдавать назад; 7) разбираться в своих мыслях, заниматься самоанализом; 8) выводить по аналогии; доходить до решения; [fān] опровергать; [fàn] 1) осторожный, осмотрительный; 2) приученный, привычный
Shuowen gloss: 覆也.從又ぁ.
Comments: The series contains words with *-r-, thus medial *-l- in the phonetic is possible. It is possibly confirmed by the old Thai loanword *plian B 'to change, turn' (probably from 反 and not from 變 *pran-s q.v.), as well as by ST data.
Radical: 29
Four-angle index: 5959
Karlgren code: 0262 a
Vietnamese reading: pha`n
Shijing occurrences: 1.2, 35.5, 54.2_
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Number: 79
Character: 反
MC description : 山合三上阮非
ZIHUI: 0646 1653
Beijing: fan 2
Jinan: fã 2
Xi'an: fã 2
Taiyuan: fä̃ 2
Hankou: fan 2
Chengdu: fan 2
Yangzhou: fɛ̃ 2
Suzhou: fe_ 2
Wenzhou: fa 21
Changsha: fan 2
Shuangfeng: xuã 2
Nanchang: фuan 2
Meixian: fan 2
Guangzhou: fān 21
Xiamen: huan 2 (lit.); pîŋ 2
Chaozhou: hueŋ 21
Fuzhou: xuaŋ 2
Shanghai: fe_ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: fan 2
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