Hanja Analyzer
蕃

蕃 — beon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
불을 번
Romanization
beon
English
foreign things
Mandarin
bō
Japanese on'yomi
バン, ハン, ヒ, ビ, ボン
Japanese kun'yomi
しげる ふえる
Japanese usage
Jinmeiyō kanji
Newspaper frequency
#2,361 of 2,500
Strokes
15
Radical
艸 (140, 12 residual)
Phonetic component
番
Unicode
U+8543

Parts that make up 蕃

  • 艹 풀 초variant of 艸 돋아난 풀잎 둘풀·나물·약초. 글자 위에 얹힌다
  • 番 차례 번, 갈아치울 반sound 밭에 찍힌 짐승 발자국차례. ‘번·반·파’ 계열의 소리

How 蕃 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 蕃 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 番.

Korean example words with 蕃

  • 번구蕃寇 Korean gloss: 오랑캐 도적
  • 토번土蕃 Korean gloss: 미개한 지방에 오랫동안 붙박이로 사는 토착민
  • 번무기蕃茂期 Korean gloss: 초목 따위가 무성한 계절
  • 번국蕃國 Korean gloss: 오랑캐 나라.
  • 번방蕃邦 Korean gloss: 오랑캐 나라.
  • 번속蕃俗 Korean gloss: 야만의 풍속.
  • 번계蕃界 Korean gloss: 야만인이 사는 곳.
  • 번지蕃地 Korean gloss: 오랑캐가 사는 땅.
  • 번토蕃土 Korean gloss: 오랑캐가 사는 땅.
  • 번무蕃茂 Korean gloss: 나무나 풀이 무성함.
  • 번성蕃盛 Korean gloss: 나무나 풀이 무성함.
  • 생번生蕃 Korean gloss: 교화되지 아니한 야만인.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 蕃

  • 蕃社ばんしゃ aborigines village
  • 蕃境ばんきょう land of the barbarians
  • 蕃書ばんしょ Western books (esp. Dutch; in the Edo period)
  • 蕃神ばんしん foreign god
  • 生蕃せいばん unconquered savage; uncivilized aboriginal; aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction
  • 蕃別ばんべつ clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean)
  • 諸蕃しょばん foreign lands; clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean)
  • 蕃茄ばんか tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
  • 吐蕃とばん Tibetan Empire (618-842 CE)
  • 蕃薯ばんしょ sweet potato
  • 蕃椒ばんしょう capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper; cayenne
  • 蕃茘枝ばんれいし sweetsop (Annona squamosa)

Characters sharing the phonetic 番

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “번”

Other hanja with radical 艸

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