般

般 (Kangxi radical 137, 舟+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜竹弓水 (HYHNE), four-corner 2744₇, composition ⿰舟殳)

1. sort, manner, kind, category

• 槃, 盤, 磐, 螌, 媻, 𪒀, 瘢, 𥈼, 鞶, 幋, 䰉, 搫

• KangXi: page 1009, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30388
• Dae Jaweon: page 1467, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3057, character 8
• Unihan data for U+822C

Historical forms of the character 般
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 舟 (“boat”) + 殳 (“rotate”).

般

1. sort; kind; class
2. like; similar to

   兄弟般的感情  ―  xiōngdì bān de gǎnqíng  ―  brotherly affection

3. Alternative form of 搬 (bān, “to move”).
4. a surname

般

1. ^† to rotate
2. ^† to go back and forth; to linger
3. ^† joyful; amused
4. ^† large

般

1. Only used in 般若 (bōrě).
2. Only used in 般涅槃 (bōnièpán).

• “般”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

From Middle Chinese 般 (MC puɑn) and 般 (MC pˠan, “sort, kind, class”):

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 般 (MC buɑn, “rotate, go back and forth”):

• Go-on: ばん (ban)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)

Other readings:

• Kan’yō-on: はつ (hatsu)
• Nanori: かず (kazu); つら (tsura)

From Middle Chinese 般 (MC buɑn, puɑn, pˠan).

般(はん) • (han) 

1. sort, kind, class
2. instance, time
3. Used in transliterations

般 (eumhun 가지 반 (gaji ban))

1. Hanja form^? of 반 (“sort, manner, kind, category”).

般 (eumhun 일반 반 (ilban ban))

1. Hanja form^? of 반 (“similar, general”).

般: Hán Nôm readings: ban, bàn, bơn, bát

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