盘桓 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

pán, pan tray Simplified

Simplified form of 盤. Phonosemantic compound. 皿 represents the meaning and 般 represents the sound.

Components

皿 Meaning component

mǐn, mǐng dish

舟 Simplified component

zhōu boat

Shorthand for the 般 component in the traditional character 盤.

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Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

huán variety of tree

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 亘 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

亘 Sound component

gèn, xuān, gèng turn around, turn back

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hwan	[ɢ]ʷˤar	pillar; martial-looking
	hwan	ɦʷˤar (< *[ɢ]ʷˤar)	烏桓 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)
Zhengzhang		ɡʷaːn
Unicode	huɑn

說文解字

亭郵表也。从木亘聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

pán, pan tray Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 皿 represents the meaning and 般 represents the sound.

Components

皿 Meaning component

mǐn, mǐng dish

般 Sound component

bān sort

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ban	[b]ˤan	tray, basin

說文解字

《說文》：“槃，承槃也。从木，般聲。鎜，古文，从金。盤，籀文，从皿。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

盘 pán, pan tray Simplified

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桓 huán variety of tree

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盤 pán, pan tray Traditional

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pán, pan tray Simplified

huán variety of tree

pán, pan tray Traditional