板 (bǎn) — board, plank; adj — stiff, wooden

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板 character · TOCFL 1 (est.)

板＝木＋反

ㄅㄢˇ · bǎn

noun — board, plank; adj — stiff, wooden

字源 FORM — what the parts do

木義wood, a treethe stuff the plank is cut from

反聲fǎn — gives the sounda hand turning something back — to turn over

Tfǎn → bǎn — the reading kept its body, the tone changed

Wood (木) and 反 fǎn for the sound — a slab split off and turned flat. A flat-cut piece of wood is a board: 木板、地板. The flat board hung up to announce gives the signboard, and the shopkeeper behind it: 黑板、老闆. Stiff and unbending as a plank: 板著臉、死板.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一塊木頭（木）劈下來，翻（反）過去削平——成了一片板。

A piece of wood (木) is split off and turned (反) flat-side up, planed down — and there's the board.

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意 · Meanings

(本義)木板、板子— a board, plank常用

→黑板、地板— blackboard, floorboard常用

⇒板著臉、死板— stiff, wooden, unbending

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension