笨

See also: 苯
笨 U+7B28, 笨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B28
← 笧
[U+7B27] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 笩 →
[U+7B29]

Translingual

Han character

笨 (radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹木一 (HDM), four-corner 88234, composition ⿱⺮本)

Derived characters
  • 𠼒, 𮅹

References
  • KangXi: page 880, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25939
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2953, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7B28

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 笨
variant forms 体
㤓
𢜘

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (本) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
本 *pɯːnʔ
笨 *pɯːnʔ, *bɯːnʔ
苯 *pɯːnʔ
翉 *pʰɯːnʔ
体 *bɯːnʔ
鉢 *poːd
缽 *poːd

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan བླུན (blun, “foolish; stupid; dull”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 笨 笨
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 魂 (55) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 布忖切 蒲本切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /puənX/ /buənX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /puonX/ /buonX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /puənX/ /buənX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pwənX/ /bwənX/
Li
Rong		 /puənX/ /buənX/
Wang
Li		 /puənX/ /buənX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /puənX/ /bʱuənX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 běn bèn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 笨 笨
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 474 478
Phonetic
component		 本 本
Rime
group		 文 文
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 本 獖
Old
Chinese		 /*pɯːnʔ/ /*bɯːnʔ/

Definitions

笨

  1. inner part of bamboo
  2. foolish; stupid
  3. awkward
  4. heavy
  5. strenuous

Usage notes
  • Not to be confused with 苯 (běn, “benzene”) (艸本), which may appear higher than 笨 (bèn) (竹本) in the candidate list of an IME.

Compounds
  • 嘴笨
  • 心拙口笨
  • 愚笨 (yúbèn)
  • 拙口笨腮
  • 拙笨 (zhuōbèn)
  • 笨伯
  • 笨口拙舌
  • 笨嘴拙腮

Japanese

Kanji
笨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • Go-on: ぼん (bon)
  • Kan-on: ほん (hon)
  • Kun: あらい (arai, 笨い); がさ (gasa, 笨)

Korean

Hanja

笨 • (bun) (hangeul 분, revised bun, McCune–Reischauer pun, Yale pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

笨 (bổn, bát)

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