膀

膀 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月卜月尸 (BYBS), four-corner 7022₇, composition ⿰⺼旁)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 990, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29748
• Dae Jaweon: page 1443, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2104, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8180

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *baːŋ): semantic 肉 (“meat; flesh”) + phonetic 旁 (OC *baːŋ).

Probably cognate with 膊 (Schuessler, 2007).

Alternatively, it may be related to etymology 3 since the shoulders are on two sides (Liu, 1999).

膀

1. upper arm; shoulder

   • 又見馬超生得面如傅粉，唇若抹朱，腰細膀寬，聲雄力猛，白袍銀鎧，手執長槍，立馬陣前。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     又见马超生得面如傅粉，唇若抹朱，腰细膀宽，声雄力猛，白袍银铠，手执长枪，立马阵前。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, circa 14^th century CE

     Yòu jiàn Mǎ Chāo shēngdé miàn rú fùfěn, chún ruò mǒ zhū, yāo xì bǎng kuān, shēng xióng lì měng, báipáo yín kǎi, shǒu zhí chángqiāng, lìmǎ zhèn qián. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. wing

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “related to PTB *(b/p)wa(ŋ/k)?”)

膀

1. only used in 膀胱 (pángguāng)

Cognate with 旁 (OC *baːŋ, “side”) (Liu, 1999).

膀

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) flank; side of one's torso

膀

1. (chiefly Mandarin, colloquial) swollen; puffed

   那個人臉都膀了。 [MSC, trad.]
   那个人脸都膀了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nèi ge rén liǎn dōu pāng le. [Pinyin]

   That person's face is swollen.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “related to etymology 1?”)

膀

1. only used in 吊膀子 (diào bàngzi) and 膀子吊

• “膀”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: わきばら (wakibara)、ふくれる (fukureru)

From Middle Chinese 膀 (MC bang). Recorded as Middle Korean 바ᇰ (pang) (Yale: pang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource

膀 (eumhun 오줌통 방 (ojumtong bang))

1. hanja form^? of 방 (“bladder”)

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