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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 124 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹月尸一一 (HBSMM) or 戈月尸一一 (IBSMM), four-corner 17220)

  1. fly, flutter

References

  • KangXi: page 958, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28762
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1404, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3353, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7FE9

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*preːn, *praːn
鯿 *praːn, *pen
*pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
*pen
*penʔ
*pʰen
*pʰen, *pʰens
*pʰen
*pʰen
*pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ
*pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
*pʰens
*pʰens
*ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ
*ben, *beːn
*peːn
*peːn
*peːn, *binʔ
*peːn
*peːn, *beːn
*peːnʔ
*peːnʔ
*peːnʔ
*peːnʔ
*peːns
*peːns
*peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan
*beːnʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰian/
Li
Rong
/pʰiɛn/
Wang
Li
/pʰĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
piān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
piān
Middle
Chinese
‹ phjien ›
Old
Chinese
/*pʰe[n]/
English fly, flutter about

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 713
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰen/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 浮想聯翩浮想联翩
  • 翩然
  • 翩然俊雅
  • 翩翩 (piānpiān)
  • 翩翩起舞
  • 翩翻
  • 翩若驚鴻翩若惊鸿
  • 翩躚翩跹
  • 聯翩联翩
  • 聯聯翩翩联联翩翩
  • 連翩连翩
  • 風度翩翩风度翩翩

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pyeon) (hangeul , revised pyeon, McCune-Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)

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