Character: 半
Modern (Beijing) reading: bàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: pāns
Classic Old Chinese: pānh
Western Han Chinese: pānh
Eastern Han Chinese: pānh
Early Postclassic Chinese: pā̀n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: pā̀n
Late Postclassic Chinese: pā̀n
Middle Chinese: pwần
English meaning : half
Russian meaning[s]: половина; пол-, полу-; наполовину; делить пополам
Comments: Attested already in Yijing, but absent in Schüssler's dictionary. There is also a Han reading *phān-s, MC phwần (FQ JY 普半) 'big board'.
Radical: 24
Four-angle index: 2461
Karlgren code: 0181 a
Vietnamese reading: bán
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