Character: 判
Modern (Beijing) reading: pàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: phāns
Classic Old Chinese: phānh
Western Han Chinese: phānh
Eastern Han Chinese: phānh
Early Postclassic Chinese: phā̀n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: phā̀n
Late Postclassic Chinese: phā̀n
Middle Chinese: phwần
English meaning : to divide; to distinguish, judge, decide
Russian meaning[s]: 1) решить, определить; вынести приговор; 2) различать, разграничивать, разделять; 3) разделяться, разлучаться; 4) разрезать надвое
Comments: All the listed meanings are attested since L.Zhou; the only earlier attestation (in Shijing) is within the die-sheng 判渙 *phāns-hʷāns 'be relaxed, slack'.
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 2864
Karlgren code: 0181 d
Vietnamese reading: phán
