鵬

See also: 鹏

鵬	U+9D6C, 鵬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D6C

← 鵫
[U+9D6B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鵭 →
[U+9D6D]

Translingual

Han character

鵬 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月月竹火 (BBHF), four-corner 7722₇, composition ⿰朋鳥)

peng: fabulous bird of enormous size

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1492, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47005
Dae Jaweon: page 2022, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4641, character 15
Unihan data for U+9D6C

Chinese

trad.		鵬
simp.		鹏

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朋) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
崩	*pɯːŋ
堋	pɯːŋs, pʰɯːŋ, *bɯːŋ
漰	*pʰɯːŋ
倗	pʰɯːŋʔ, bɯːŋ, *bɯːŋs
朋	*bɯːŋ
鵬	*bɯːŋ
棚	bɯːŋ, brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ
鬅	*bɯːŋ
掤	*pɯŋ
淜	*bɯŋ
輣	brɯːŋ, brɯːŋ
繃	prɯːŋ, prɯːŋ
弸	pʰrɯːŋ, brɯːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bɯːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic 朋 (OC *bɯːŋ, “phoenix”) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)

Etymology

This has been related to 風 (OC *plum, “wind”) (Schuessler, 2007) and also by Wang (1982) to 鳳 (OC *bums, “male fenghuang”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): péng (peng²)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): paang⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): beng² / peng²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): phêng / pêng / phn̂g

(Teochew, Peng'im): pong⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ban

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: péng
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: péng
  - Wade–Giles: pʻêng²
  - Yale: péng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: perng
  - Palladius: пэн (pɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɤŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: paang⁴
  - Yale: pàahng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: paang⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: pang⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːŋ²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: beng²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: béng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: beng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛŋ²⁴/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: peng²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: péng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: peng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛŋ²⁴/

Note: peng2 - probably influeinced by Mandarin.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phêng
  - Tâi-lô: phîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pheeng
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /pʰiɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪŋ¹³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pêng
  - Tâi-lô: pîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: peeng
  - IPA (Taipei): /piɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ²³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phn̂g
  - Tâi-lô: phn̂g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phngg
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰŋ̍²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: pong⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phông
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰoŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶ban
  - MiniDict: ban^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ban
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bã²³/

Middle Chinese: bong

Rime
Character	鵬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	步崩切
Baxter	bong
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bəŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/bəŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/bəŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bəŋ/
Li Rong	/bəŋ/
Wang Li	/bəŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱəŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	péng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pang⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*bɯːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鵬
Reading #	1/1
No.	9665
Phonetic component	朋
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	朋
Old Chinese	/*bɯːŋ/

Definitions

鵬

(Chinese mythology) peng (enormous bird)
- 鵬之背，不知其幾千里也。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  鹏之背，不知其几千里也。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE
  Péng zhī bèi, bùzhī qí jǐ qiān lǐ yě. [Pinyin]
  I don't know how many thousand li the Pengʹs back is.

Synonyms

大鵬／大鹏 (dàpéng)

Compounds

大鵬 / 大鹏 (dàpéng)
萬里鵬程 / 万里鹏程
萬里鵬翼 / 万里鹏翼
酷鵬 / 酷鹏
鯤鵬 / 鲲鹏 (kūnpéng)
鯤鵬展翅 / 鲲鹏展翅
鵬圖 / 鹏图
鵬摶 / 鹏抟
鵬程萬里 / 鹏程万里 (péngchéngwànlǐ)
鵬舉 / 鹏举
鵬舉獎章 / 鹏举奖章
鵬鯤 / 鹏鲲
鵬鷃 / 鹏𮭨
鷃鵬 / 𮭨鹏
鷽鳩笑鵬 / 鸴鸠笑鹏 (xuéjiūxiàopéng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鵬):

→ Korean: 붕(鵬) (bung)
→ Vietnamese: bằng (鵬)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鹏”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 174.
莆田县县志編輯委員会 [Putian County Chronicle Editorial Committee], editor (1964), 莆田方言志（語音編） [Chronicle of Putian Dialect (Volume of Phonetics)] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min).

Japanese

Shinjitai	鵬
Kyūjitai ^[1]	鵬󠄁 鵬+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	鵬󠄃 鵬+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

鵬

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

peng (fabled large bird)

Readings

Go-on: ぼう (bō)
Kan-on: ほう (hō)
Kun: おおとり (ōtori, 鵬)^{←おほとり (ofotori, 鵬, historical)}
Nanori: とも (tomo)、ゆき (yuki)

Compounds

鵬程(ほうてい) (hōtei, “large distance”)
鵬図(ほうと) (hōto, “large scheme”)
鵬翼(ほうよく) (hōyoku, “wings of an aircraft; aircraft”, literally “wings of a peng”)
大鵬(たいほう) (taihō, literally “big peng”)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鵬
ほう Jinmeiyō
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 鵬 (MC bong).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ほー [hóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
IPA^(key): [ho̞ː]

Noun

鵬(ほう) or 鵬(ぼう) • (hō or bō)

(Chinese mythology) peng: a fabled large bird thought to have wings measuring 3,000 li and can soar up to 90,000 li
Synonym: 大鳥 (ōtori)

Idioms

鯤鵬(こんほう) (konhō, “something extremely large”, literally “kun (large mythical fish) and peng (large mythical bird)”)

Proper noun

鵬(ほう) • (Hō)

a male or female given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鵬
おおとり Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鵬 – see the following entry.

【おおとり】

[noun] any large bird (crane, stork, swan, etc.)

[noun] any majestic bird of legend (peng, fenghuang, phoenix, roc, etc.)

[proper noun] a surname

Alternative spellings
大鳥, 鳳, 鴻

(This term, 鵬, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2409 (paper), page 1256 (digital)
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鵬 (eumhun 대붕 붕 (daebung bung))

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Vietnamese

Han character

鵬: Hán Nôm readings: bằng, bành

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[1] Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2409 (paper), page 1256 (digital)

[DJR-2] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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