冸

冸 U+51B8, 冸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51B8
← 冷
[U+51B7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冹 →
[U+51B9]

Translingual

Han character

冸 (Kangxi radical 15, 冫+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈一火手 (IMFQ), composition ⿰冫半)

  1. melt

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 132, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1623
  • Dae Jaweon: page 295, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 296, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+51B8

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (半) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
半 *paːns
絆 *paːns
靽 *paːns
姅 *paːns, *pʰaːns
拌 *pʰaːn, *baːnʔ
拚 *pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
坢 *pʰaːnʔ
判 *pʰaːns
泮 *pʰaːns
頖 *pʰaːns
胖 *pʰaːns
冸 *pʰaːns
牉 *pʰaːns
柈 *baːn
伴 *baːnʔ, *baːns
叛 *baːns
畔 *baːns
袢 *ban

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 冸 – see 泮 (“to melt, dissolve”).
(This character is an ancient form of 泮).

Japanese

Kanji

冸

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. fall apart

Readings

  • Go-on: はん (han)
  • Kan-on: はん (han)
  • Kun: とける (tokeru)

Korean

Hanja

冸 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune–Reischauer pan)

  1. melt (ice)
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