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蹁

蹁

Translingual

Han character

蹁 (radical 157 足+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口一竹尸月 (RMHSB) or 口一戈尸月 (RMISB), four-corner 67127, composition ⿰⻊扁)

  1. splayfoot
  2. knee

References

  • KangXi: page 1230, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37717
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1702, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3726, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8E41

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蹁

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 蹁 蹁
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 部田切 布玄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ben/ /pen/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ben/ /pen/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bɛn/ /pɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bɛn/ /pɛn/
Li
Rong		 /ben/ /pen/
Wang
Li		 /bien/ /pien/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱien/ /pien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pián biān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蹁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 pián
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ben ›
Old
Chinese		 /*bˤe[r]/
English 蹁蹮 walk with difficulty (Shuōwén)

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 蹁 蹁
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 731 742
Phonetic
component		 扁 扁
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 邊 蹁
Old
Chinese		 /*peːn/ /*beːn/

Definitions

蹁

  1. walk with a limp

Japanese

Kanji

蹁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to walk with a limp

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. totter
  2. knee

Vietnamese

Han character

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