蚌

蚌 U+868C, 蚌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-868C
← 蚋
[U+868B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蚍 →
[U+868D]

Translingual

Han character

蚌 (radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈手十 (LIQJ), four-corner 55100, composition ⿰虫丰)

References
  • KangXi: page 1077, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32851
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2836, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+868C

Chinese
trad. 蚌
simp. # 蚌

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邦 *proːŋ
梆 *proːŋ
垹 *proːŋ
肨 *pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌 *broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤 *broːŋʔ
棒 *broːŋʔ
蜯 *broːŋʔ
琫 *poːŋʔ
菶 *poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸 *poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼 *boːŋ
蜂 *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸 *boːŋ
蓬 *boːŋ
篷 *boːŋ
唪 *boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲 *boːŋʔ
丰 *pʰoŋ
妦 *pʰoŋ
仹 *pʰoŋ
峯 *pʰoŋ
峰 *pʰoŋ
鋒 *pʰoŋ
烽 *pʰoŋ
蠭 *pʰoŋ
桻 *pʰoŋ
莑 *pʰoŋ
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧 *pʰoŋʔ
逢 *boŋ
縫 *boŋ, *boŋs
漨 *boŋ
捀 *boŋ, *boŋs
奉 *boŋʔ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation
Note: bèng - variant reading and Mainland standard reading of 蚌埠 (Bèngbù).
Rime
Character 蚌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 江 (9)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 步項切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠʌŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚɔŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bɔŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /baɨwŋX/
Li
Rong		 /bɔŋX/
Wang
Li		 /bɔŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱɔŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bàng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蚌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bæwngX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ˁroŋʔ/
English oyster, mussel

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蚌
Reading # 2/2
No. 3209
Phonetic
component		 丰
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*breːŋʔ/
Notes 同說文螷，由步項切訓讀

Definitions

蚌

  1. common name for some bivalve molluscs
  2. pearl
  3. Short for 蚌埠 (Bèngbù, “Bengbu”).

Compounds
  • 剖蚌求珠
  • 明珠生蚌
  • 河蚌 (hébàng)
  • 珠蚌
  • 瓦器蚌盤／瓦器蚌盘
  • 老蚌生珠
  • 蚌殼／蚌壳 (bàngké)

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 蚌 – see 螷 (“a long and narrow mollusc”).
(This character, 蚌, is a variant form of 螷.)

Etymology 3
For pronunciation and definitions of 蚌 – see 蜂 (“Apoidea or Vespa; swarm”).
(This character, 蚌, is a variant form of 蜂.)

Japanese

Kanji
蚌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • Go-on: ぼう (bō)
  • Kan-on: ほう (hō)
  • Kun: どぶが (dobuga)

Korean

Hanja

蚌 • (bang) (hangeul 방, revised bang, McCune–Reischauer pang, Yale pang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蚌 (bạng)

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References
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