Character: 帆
Modern (Beijing) reading: fān
Preclassic Old Chinese: bram
Classic Old Chinese: bram
Western Han Chinese: bram
Eastern Han Chinese: bram
Early Postclassic Chinese: bam
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bam
Late Postclassic Chinese: bam
Middle Chinese: bwɨm
English meaning : sail [Han]
Comments: Also read fàn, MC bwɨ̀m, OC *bram-s 'to sail, go on sail'. Viet. buồm is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is phàm. For *bh cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou phaŋ2, Fuzhou phuŋ2, Jianou phoŋ2.
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0625 d
Vietnamese reading: buồm
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