Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

頒: distribute, disseminate

Also: partition, understand

JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

頁 carries the meaning · 分 gives the sound

13 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ハンhan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 頒布はんぷdistribution; circulation
  • 頒価はんかdistribution price
  • 頒布権はんぷけん(movie) distribution rights

Also read わかつ, わける, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Face the world! This radical represents everything that happens from the neck up—thinking, seeing, breathing, and the very identity of a person.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
頒 distribute · 分
vs頌 eulogy · 公
頒 has 分 where 頌 has 公.
In ChineseSimplified 颁 · traditional, as in Japanese · bān

Japan keeps the traditional form 頒; mainland China simplifies it to 颁.

Simplified
颁 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
頒 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bān most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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