坂

See also: 阪 and 坡
坂 U+5742, 坂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5742
← 坁
[U+5741] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 坃 →
[U+5743]

Translingual

Han character

坂 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土竹水 (GHE), four-corner 41147 or 42147, composition ⿰土反)

Derived characters

  • 𭇸

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 224, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4910
  • Dae Jaweon: page 459, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 423, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5742

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (反) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
扳 *praːn, *pʰraːn
板 *praːnʔ
版 *praːnʔ
瓪 *praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄 *praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑 *praːnʔ
蝂 *praːnʔ
眅 *pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪 *braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬 *braːnʔ
粄 *paːnʔ
反 *panʔ, *pʰan
返 *panʔ
坂 *panʔ
畈 *pans
販 *pans
汳 *pʰans
飯 *bonʔ, *bons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *panʔ): semantic 土 + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Etymology 1

trad. 坂
simp. # 坂
alternative forms 阪
岅／坂

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 坂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 府遠切
Baxter pjonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/puanX/
Li
Rong 		/piuɐnX/
Wang
Li 		/pĭwɐnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pi̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		faan2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 坂
Reading # 1/1
No. 2970
Phonetic
component 		反
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		反
Old
Chinese 		/*panʔ/
Notes 同阪見山海經

Definitions

坂

  1. (literary) slope

Etymology 2

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 坂 – see 阪 (“slope; hillside trail”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 阪).
Notes:

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

坂

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. alternative form of 阪

Readings

  • Go-on: べん (ben)、ほん (hon)
  • Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
  • Kan’yō-on: ばん (ban)
  • Kun: さか (saka, 坂, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
坂
さか
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 坂 – see the following entry.
【さか】
[noun] slope; hill
Alternative spelling
阪
(This term, 坂, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

坂 (eum 판 (pan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

坂: Hán Việt readings: phản
坂: Nôm readings: bản, phản, phằng

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