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蝙

蝙

Translingual

Han character

蝙 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹尸月 (LIHSB) or 中戈戈尸月 (LIISB), four-corner 53127, composition ⿰虫扁)

  1. bat

References

  • KangXi: page 1089, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33271
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2873, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+8759

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蝙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (扁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
斒 *preːn, *praːn
鯿 *praːn, *pen
編 *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
揙 *pen
褊 *penʔ
篇 *pʰen
偏 *pʰen, *pʰens
翩 *pʰen
媥 *pʰen
扁 *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ
萹 *pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
騗 *pʰens
騙 *pʰens
諞 *ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ
楄 *ben, *beːn
蝙 *peːn
甂 *peːn
猵 *peːn, *binʔ
牑 *peːn
蹁 *peːn, *beːn
匾 *peːnʔ
碥 *peːnʔ
惼 *peːnʔ
糄 *peːnʔ
徧 *peːns
遍 *peːns
頨 *peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan
艑 *beːnʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蝙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 布玄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pen/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pen/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pɛn/
Li
Rong		 /pen/
Wang
Li		 /pien/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 biān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蝙
Reading # 1/1
No. 725
Phonetic
component		 扁
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 邊
Old
Chinese		 /*peːn/

Definitions

蝙

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Compounds

  • 蝙蝠人
  • 蝙蝠俠／蝙蝠侠 (Biānfúxiá)

References

Japanese

Kanji

蝙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. bat

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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