板

See also: 闆 and 反

板 U+677F, 板 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-677F ← 松 [U+677E] CJK Unified Ideographs 枀 → [U+6780]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

板 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水 (DHE) or 難木竹水 (XDHE), four-corner 4194₇ or 4294₇, composition ⿰木反)

Derived characters

• 𥯈, 𨧸, 𫪒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 514, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14518
• Dae Jaweon: page 902, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1172, character 3
• Unihan data for U+677F

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 板
Warring States
Chu slip and silk script

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

	Old Chinese
扳	*praːn, *pʰraːn
板	*praːnʔ
版	*praːnʔ
瓪	*praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄	*praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑	*praːnʔ
蝂	*praːnʔ
眅	*pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪	*braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬	*braːnʔ
粄	*paːnʔ
反	*panʔ, *pʰan
返	*panʔ
坂	*panʔ
畈	*pans
販	*pans
汳	*pʰans
飯	*bonʔ, *bons

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

Officially adopted as the simplified form of 闆 (etymology 2) in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Etymology 1

trad.		板
simp. #		板

The same word as 版 (OC *praːnʔ, “plank”). Cognate with Tibetan འཕར ('phar, “panel; small plank”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 板

1. plank; board

   木板  ―  mùbǎn  ―  board; plank

   玻璃板  ―  bōlí bǎn  ―  glass board

2. blackboard

   板報／板报  ―  bǎnbào  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. sluggish; stiff; inflexible

   呆板  ―  dāibǎn  ―  sluggish

   古板  ―  gǔbǎn  ―  stuffy; old-fashioned and inflexible

4. to harden; hardened
5. (Internet) board (sub-unit of a larger BBS or imageboard)
6. (music) clapper
7. (music) beat; meter; rhythm (in music or Chinese opera)

   行板  ―  xíngbǎn  ―  andante

   散板  ―  sǎnbǎn  ―  sanban

8. to look serious or displeased
9. (literary or Southern Min) wooden coffin
10. (Southern Min) ability; capability; talent

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 板 – see 闆 (“used in 老闆”). (This character is the simplified form of 闆).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “板”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

板

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ばん (ban, Jōyō)
• Kun: いた (ita, 板, Jōyō)

Compounds

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Compounds

• 板(はん)木(ぎ) (hangi)
• 板(ばん)木(ぎ) (bangi)
• 板(ばん)書(しょ) (bansho)
• 指(し)板(ばん) (shiban, “fingerboard”)
• 黒(こく)板(ばん) (kokuban, “blackboard”)
• 白(はく)板(ばん) (hakuban, “whiteboard”)
• 平(へい)板(ばん)型(がた) (heiban-gata)
• 平(へい)板(ばん)式(しき) (heibanshiki)
• 鉄(てっ)板(ぱん) (teppan, “griddle”)
• 鉄(てっ)板(ぱん)焼(や)き (teppan'yaki)
• 三(サン)板(パン) (sanpan), 舢(サン)板(パン) (sanpan, “sampan”)

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Kanji in this term
板
いた Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Noun

板(いた) • (ita) 

1. plank, board
2. (cooking) Short for 俎板.
3. (cooking) Short for 板前.
4. (cooking) Short for 板場.
5. (laundry) Short for 洗濯板.
6. (Internet) board (sub-unit of a larger BBS or imageboard)

Derived terms

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Derived terms

• 板(いた)垣(がき) (itagaki)
• 板(いた)材(ざい) (itazai)
• 板(いた)の間(ま) (itanoma)
• 板(いた)場(ば) (itaba)
• 板(いた)挟(ばさ)み (itabasami)
• 板(いた)碑(び) (itabi)
• 板(いた)塀(べい) (itabei)
• 板(いた)前(まえ) (itamae)
• 板(いた)目(め) (itame)
• 押(おし)板(いた) (oshīta, “shoin style tokonoma”)
• 俎(まな)板(いた) (manaita)

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Korean

Hanja

板 (eumhun 널빤지 판 (neolppanji pan))

1. hanja form^? of 판 (“plank”)

Compounds

• 算板, 산판 (sanpan)
• 石膏板, 석고판 (seokgopan)
• 셈板, 셈판 (sempan)
• 數板, 수판 (supan)
• 頂板, 정판 (jeongpan)
• 籌板, 주판 (jupan)
• 珠板, 주판 (jupan)

See also

• 反
• 版

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Vietnamese

Han character

板: Hán Nôm readings: ván, bản, bửng, phản

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