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Chinese

版

bǎn
plank; formwork (wooden slabs used for molding in rammed earth construction)
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 5
  • radical 片
  • 8 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *praːnʔ): semantic 片 + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Related to 板 (OC *praːnʔ, “plank, board”); see there for more.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • meaningChinese片 “thin piece; flake; slice”
  • soundChinese反 “to turn over or flip; to turn around; to reverse; to change to an opposite position”

Words built on it: 出版

Meanings

character
  1. plank; formwork (wooden slabs used for molding in rammed earth construction)
  2. printing block; printing plate; forme
  3. page (of a newspaper or other media)
  4. edition; version
  5. the act of publishing
  6. message board

Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字

版：判也。从片反聲。

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 印刷所用的版式。 例：鉛版、鋅版、照相版
  2. 印刷物印行的次數。 例：初版、再版
  3. 報紙或雜誌的版面或版別。 例：財經版、中央日報第三版
  4. 印刷物的刻版。通「板」。 例：版印、版本
  5. 建築所用的木板。 例：版築
  6. 量詞

© Ministry of Education, Taiwan — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW, shown unaltered.

How 版 was written 字形演變

  1. 版 in Qin slips script
    Qin slips
    秦系簡牘
    Qin
  2. 版 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  3. 版 in Regular script
    Regular
    楷書
    since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

  • Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
  • HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • 說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi (Xu Shen, c. 100 CE) — Public domain
  • Written form — n/a
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 版