朋

朋 (Kangxi radical 74, 月+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月月 (BB), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿰月月)

• 倗, 堋, 弸, 㥊, 掤, 淜, 棚, 焩, 㻚, 硼, 稝, 䙀, 綳(绷), 輣(𰺏), 錋
• 㽰, 鵬(鹏), 奟, 崩, 萠, 䨜, 鬅, 痭, 朤

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 504, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14340
• Dae Jaweon: page 883, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2050, character 6
• Unihan data for U+670B

Pictogram (象形).

The oracle bone script form consisted of two strings of five cowries. Some forms of the oracle bone script contained an additional 人 which later evolved into 勹 (OC *pruː), which served as a phonetic component. The glyph was eventually corrupted to a duplication of 月 (“moon”).

Shuowen erroneously suggests 朋 (OC *bɯːŋ) was the ancient form of 鳳 (OC *bums).

朋

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) unit of shell money; various theories exist about the exact amount

   • 既見君子、錫我百朋。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     既见君子、锡我百朋。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Jì jiàn jūnzǐ, xī wǒ bǎi péng. [Pinyin]

     We see our noble lord,
     And he gives us a hundred sets of cowries.

2. friend

   朋友  ―  péngyǒu  ―  friend

   良朋  ―  liángpéng  ―  good friend

   • 有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎？ [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？ [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yǒu péng zì yuǎnfāng lái, bù yì yuè hū? [Pinyin]

     Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?

3. (literary) to gang up; to band together
4. (literary) to be similar; to equal

   碩大無朋／硕大无朋  ―  shuòdàwúpéng  ―  exceptionally large; enormous

5. a surname

• “朋”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. friend
2. faction

• Go-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: とも (tomo, 朋)
• Nanori: とも (tomo)

• IPA^(key): [to̞mo̞]

朋(とも) • (Tomo) 

1. a female given name

From Middle Chinese 朋 (MC bong). Recorded as Middle Korean 브ᇰ (pung) (Yale: pung) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource

朋 (eumhun 벗 붕 (beot bung))

1. hanja form^? of 붕 (“friend”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

朋: Hán Nôm readings: bằng, bẵng

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