扮

扮 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手金尸竹 (QCSH), four-corner 5802₇, composition ⿰扌分)

• 𢚅, 㧳

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 418, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11829
• Dae Jaweon: page 765, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1840, character 8
• Unihan data for U+626E

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ): semantic 扌 + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

扮

1. to dress up; to disguise oneself
2. to act; to play
3. to put on an expression; to make faces
4. (Cantonese) to pretend; to feign

   扮彈結他／扮弹结他 [Cantonese]  ―  baan⁶ taan⁴ git^3-6 taa¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to pretend to play the guitar

   扮示威者 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   From: 2019, 便衣警扮示威者偷拍人群, in Apple Daily [1]

   baan⁶ si⁶ wai¹ ze² [Jyutping]

   to pose as a protestor

扮

1. (literary) to hold
2. (literary) to merge
3. (literary) to agitate

扮

1. (historical dictionaries only) to dig

扮

1. (historical dictionaries only) messy

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. dress-up, disguise
2. to mix, to merge

• Go-on: へん (hen)、ふん (fun)
• Kan-on: はん (han)、ふん (fun)
• Kan’yō-on: ふん (fun)
• Kun: よそおう (yosōu, 扮う)、かざる (kazaru, 扮る)
• The goon and kan'on readings of ふん derive from Middle Chinese pjunX, bjunX, and refer to the sense "to mix, to merge".
• The other on readings derive from Middle Chinese peanH, and relate to the sense of "dressing up"/"disguising".

From Middle Chinese 扮, with the addition of Old Japanese す (su) for verb conjugation. す (su) eventually evolved into modern Japanese する (suru).

• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟̃ɴ]

扮(ふん)する • (fun suru) intransitive suru (stem 扮(ふん)し (fun shi), past 扮(ふん)した (fun shita))

1. to dress up in a disguise, to disguise oneself

   老人(ろうじん)に扮(ふん)して警察(けいさつ)を逃(に)げた。

   Rōjin ni funshite keisatsu o nigeta.

   He dressed up as / disguised himself as an old man and escaped from the police.

2. to put on a costume, to play a role

   去年(きょねん)ハムレットに扮(ふん)しました。

   Kyonen Hamuretto ni funshimashita.

   Last year I played / took the role of Hamlet.

扮 • (bun, ban) (hangeul 분, 반, revised bun, ban, McCune–Reischauer pun, pan, Yale pun, pan)

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扮: Hán Nôm readings: phẫn

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