般

般 (Kangxi radical 137, 舟+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜竹弓水 (HYHNE), four-corner 2744₇, composition ⿰舟殳)

1. sort, manner, kind, category

• 槃, 盤, 磐, 螌, 媻, 𪒀, 搬, 瘢, 𥈼, 鞶, 幋, 䰉, 搫

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1009, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30388
• Dae Jaweon: page 1467, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3057, character 8
• Unihan data for U+822C

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 舟 (“boat”) + 殳 (“rotate”).

般

1. sort; kind; class
2. like; similar to

   兄弟般的感情  ―  xiōngdì bān de gǎnqíng  ―  brotherly affection

3. alternative form of 搬 (bān, “to move”)
4. a surname

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bran (“to convalesce, recover, return”). Cognate with Burmese ပြန် (pran, “to go back, return; to translate”) (STEDT).

般

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to rotate
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to go back and forth; to linger
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) joyful; amused
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) large

Transliteration of Indic loanwords; see their respective entries for more.

般

1. only used in 般若 (bōrě)
2. only used in 般涅槃 (bōnièpán)

• “般”, 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–

(Jōyō kanji)

From Middle Chinese 般 (MC pan) and 般 (MC paen, “sort, kind, class”):

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 般 (MC ban, “rotate, go back and forth”):

• Go-on: ばん (ban)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)

Other readings:

• Kan’yō-on: はつ (hatsu)
• Nanori: かず (kazu)、つら (tsura)

From Middle Chinese 般 (MC ban|pan|paen).

般(はん) • (han) 

1. sort, kind, class
2. instance, time
3. Used in transliterations

般 (eumhun 가지 반 (gaji ban))

1. hanja form^? of 반 (“sort, manner, kind, category”)

般 (eumhun 일반 반 (ilban ban))

1. hanja form^? of 반 (“similar, general”)

般: Hán Nôm readings: ban, bàn, bơn, bát

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