苯

See also: 笨
苯 U+82EF, 苯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82EF
← 苮
[U+82EE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 苰 →
[U+82F0]

Translingual

Han character

苯 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿木一 (TDM), four-corner 44234, composition ⿱艹本)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1024, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30806
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3187, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+82EF

Chinese
trad. 苯
simp. # 苯

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (本) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
本 *pɯːnʔ
笨 *pɯːnʔ, *bɯːnʔ
苯 *pɯːnʔ
翉 *pʰɯːnʔ
体 *bɯːnʔ
鉢 *poːd
缽 *poːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pɯːnʔ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 本 (OC *pɯːnʔ).

Etymology
“benzene”
Borrowed from English benzene.

Pronunciation

Definitions

苯

  1. (organic chemistry) benzene
  2. Short for 苯教 (Běnjiào, “Bon (an indigenous religious tradition of Tibet)”).
  3. Used in 苯䔿 (“luxuriant”).
  4. Misspelling of 笨 (bèn, “stupid”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji
苯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • Go-on: ほん (hon)
  • Kan-on: ほん (hon)

Korean

Hanja

苯 • (bun) (hangeul 분, revised bun, McCune–Reischauer pun, Yale pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

苯: Hán Nôm readings: bản

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