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辨
辨
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 弁 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 辨 |
| Traditional | 辨 |
Han character
辨 (radical 160 辛+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜十戈中十 (YJILJ), four-corner 00441)
References
- KangXi: page 1251, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38657
- Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4041, character 6
- Unihan data for U+8FA8
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
辨 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (辡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 辬 | *praːn |
| 瓣 | *breːns |
| 辦 | *breːns |
| 辨 | *breːns, *brenʔ |
| 辡 | *prenʔ, *brenʔ |
| 辯 | *brenʔ |
| 辮 | *beːnʔ |
From 辧, a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *breːns, *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bin6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phien
- Min Dong (BUC): biêng
- Min Nan (POJ): piān
- Wu (Wiktionary): bi (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: pien4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
- IPA (key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: bin6
- Yale: bihn
- Cantonese Pinyin: bin6
- IPA (key): /piːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phien
- Hakka Romanization System: pien
- Hagfa Pinyim: pian4
- IPA: /pʰi̯en⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: biêng
- IPA (key): /piɛŋ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
- Tâi-lô: piān
- Phofsit Daibuun: pien
- IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /piɛn³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: bi (T3)
- IPA (key): /b̻i²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 辨 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /pian⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /pian⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /pian⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /piã²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /piã⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /pian³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /piã⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /piã²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /pian¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /piɛ̃n¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /pian²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /piɛn³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /pian¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /pian²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /piɛ̃²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /pien⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /piĩ⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /pie⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /pie̞³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /pie⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /bi²³/ |
| Suzhou | /biɪ³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /biẽ̞¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /bi³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /pʰe²²/ |
| Tunxi | /piɛ²⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /piẽ⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /piẽ⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /pʰiɛn²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /pʰien⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /pʰien⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /pin²²/ |
| Nanning | /pin²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /pin²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /pian²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /piɛŋ²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /piŋ⁴²/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /piaŋ³⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ʔbin³³/ |
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 辨 | 辨 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (79) | 山 (73) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | Chongniu III | II |
| Fanqie | 符蹇切 | 蒲莧切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/bˠiᴇnX/ | /bˠɛnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/bᵚiɛnX/ | /bᵚænH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/biænX/ | /bænH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/bianX/ | /bəɨnH/ |
| Li Rong |
/bjɛnX/ | /bɛnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/bĭɛnX/ | /bænH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/bʱi̯ɛnX/ | /bʱănH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
biàn | bàn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 辨 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
biàn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ bjenX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[b]renʔ/ |
| English | distinguish |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 辨 | 辨 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 783 | 785 |
| Phonetic component |
辡 | 辡 |
| Rime group |
元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
瓣 | 辯 |
| Old Chinese |
/*breːns/ | /*brenʔ/ |
Definitions
辨
- to distinguish; to discriminate
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
辨
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)
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Readings
Compounds
- 辨官
- 辨財天
Korean
Hanja
辨 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune-Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
辨 (biện, bẹn)
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