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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 149 +16, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女火人大 (VFOK), four-corner 22408, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1186, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36117
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1650, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1481, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8B8A

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mroːn
*mroːnʔ
*prons
*b·roːn
*b·roːn
*b·roːn
*b·roːn
*b·roːn
*b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
*b·roːn
*b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
*b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
*b·roːn
*b·roːn
孿 *smroːns, *smrons
*qroːn
*qroːn
*b·ron
*b·ronʔ, *b·rons
*b·rons
*pʰlons, *klons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *prons) : phonetic  (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons) + semantic .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (79)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/piænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pianH/
Li
Rong
/pjɛnH/
Wang
Li
/pĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 8612
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*prons/

Definitions

  1. to change, to transform, to alter
  2. to rebel

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(byeon) (hangeul , revised byeon, McCune-Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(biến, bén, bến)

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