潘

潘 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水竹木田 (EHDW), four-corner 3216₉, composition ⿰氵番)

• 藩, 籓, 𤄤

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 649, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18236
• Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1745, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6F58

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰaːn): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 番 (OC *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban).

潘

1. (obsolete) water in which rice has been rinsed

   • 其間面垢，燂潘請靧。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     其间面垢，燂潘请𫖃。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Qíjiān miàn gòu, xún pān qǐng huì. [Pinyin]

     If in the meantime their faces appear dirty, they should heat the wafer in which the rice has been cleaned, and ask them to wash with it.

2. a surname

   潘愉  ―  Pān Yú  ―  Florence Y. Pan (Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit)

   潘金蓮／潘金莲  ―  Pān Jīnlián  ―  Pan Jinlian (fictional female character in Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei)

3. Used in place names.
4. (Greek mythology) Pan
5. (Hokkien) slops; swill; hogwash

   潘水 [Hokkien]  ―  phun-chúi [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  slops

• (water in which rice has been rinsed): 米泔水 (mǐgānshuǐ), 洗米水 (xǐmǐshuǐ)； (Gan) 淘米水 (táomǐshuǐ); (Hokkien) 米潘, 洗米潘; (Northern Min, Xiang) 米潲水

Others:

• → English: Pan, Poon, Pun, Phua
• → Mandarin: ㄆㄨㄣ (pūn) (Taiwanese slang from Hokkien)
• → Tagalog: Pua (via Hokkien)

潘

1. (obsolete) whirlpool

潘

1. (obsolete, of water) to overflow

• “潘”, 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–
• “潘”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. water in which rice has been washed

• Go-on: はん (han)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: しろみず (shiromizu, 潘)^{←しろみづ (siromidu, 潘, historical)}

潘(はん) • (Han) 

1. a surname

潘 (eum 반 (ban))
潘 (eum 번 (beon))

1. hanja form^? of 반 (“a surname”)

潘: Hán Nôm readings: phan, Phan

1. chữ Hán form of Phan (“a surname from Chinese”)

   潘佩珠 ― Phan Bội Châu