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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 160 +7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜十卜廿十 (YJYTJ), composition辛)

  1. recrimination
  2. wrangling

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1251, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38644
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4040, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8FA1

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*praːn
*breːns
*breːns
*breːns, *brenʔ
*prenʔ, *brenʔ
*brenʔ
*beːnʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  + .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (1)
Final () (79) (79)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () Chongniu III Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠiᴇnX/ /pˠiᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚiɛnX/ /pᵚiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/biænX/ /piænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bianX/ /pianX/
Li
Rong
/bjɛnX/ /pjɛnX/
Wang
Li
/bĭɛnX/ /pĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯ɛnX/ /pi̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biàn biǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
biàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjenX ›
Old
Chinese
/*prenʔ/
English criminals accusing one another (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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 784 787
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*prenʔ/ /*brenʔ/

Verb

  1. (obsolete, of criminals) to dispute with each other; alternative form of (biàn).

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings