潘 (Kangxi radical 85,水+12, 15 strokes,cangjie input水竹木田 (EHDW),four-corner3216₉,composition⿰氵番)

• 藩,籓,𤄤

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 649, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18236
• Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1745, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6F58

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 潘姓(Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 潘氏(Cantonese)
• 潘姓(Gan)
• Phoaⁿ (sèⁿ)(Southern Min)
• Pan (surname)(English)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*pʰaːn): semantic 水(“water”) + phonetic 番(OC*paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban).

潘

1. (obsolete)water in whichrice has beenrinsed

   • 其間面垢，燂潘請靧。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     其间面垢，燂潘请𫖃。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From: TheBook of Rites,c. 4^th – 2^nd centuryBCE

     Qíjiān miàn gòu, xúnpān qǐng huì.[Pinyin]

     If in the meantime their faces appear dirty, they should heat the wafer in which the rice has been cleaned, and ask them to wash with it.

2. asurname

   潘愉  ― Pān Yú  ― Florence Y.Pan (Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit)

   潘金蓮／潘金莲  ― Pān Jīnlián  ― Pan Jinlian (fictional female character inWater Margin andJin Ping Mei)

3. Used in place names.
4. (Greekmythology)Pan
5. (Hokkien)slops;swill;hogwash

   潘水[Hokkien]  ― phun-chúi[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  slops

• (water in which rice has been rinsed):米泔水 (mǐgānshuǐ),洗米水 (xǐmǐshuǐ)；(Gan)淘米水 (táomǐshuǐ);(Hokkien)米潘,洗米潘;(Northern Min, Xiang)米潲水

Others:

• → English:Pan,Poon,Pun,Phua
• → Mandarin:ㄆㄨㄣ(pūn)(Taiwanese slang from Hokkien)
• → Tagalog:Pua(via Hokkien)

潘

1. (obsolete)whirlpool

潘

1. (obsolete, of water) tooverflow

• “潘”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• “潘”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2025.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. water in whichrice has beenwashed

• Go-on:はん(han)
• Kan-on:はん(han)
• Kun:しろみず(shiromizu,潘)^{←しろみづ(siromidu,潘,historical)}

潘(はん)• (Han) 

1. asurname

潘 (eum반(ban))
潘 (eum번(beon))

1. hanja form^? of반(“asurname”)

潘:Hán Nôm readings:phan,Phan

1. chữ Hán form ofPhan(“asurname from Chinese”).

   潘佩珠 ―Phan Bội Châu

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