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秉

秉

Translingual

Han character

秉 (radical 115 禾+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中 (HDL) or X竹木中 (XHDL), four-corner 20907)

  1. grasp, hold
  2. bundle
  3. authority

References

  • KangXi: page 849, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24932
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1272, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2592, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+79C9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 秉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (秉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
秉 *praŋʔ
棅 *praŋs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 秉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 兵永切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠiæŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚiaŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piaŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /piajŋX/
Li
Rong		 /piɐŋX/
Wang
Li		 /pĭɐŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯ɐŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 秉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjængX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*praŋʔ/
English grasp

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 秉
Reading # 1/1
No. 899
Phonetic
component		 秉
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 丙
Old
Chinese		 /*praŋʔ/

Definitions

秉

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Compounds

  • 一秉至公
  • 伊秉綬／伊秉绶
  • 內秉堅孤／内秉坚孤
  • 公秉
  • 披秉
  • 當風秉燭／当风秉烛
  • 秉公
  • 秉公無私／秉公无私
  • 秉國／秉国
  • 秉彝
  • 秉心
  • 秉性 (bǐngxìng)
  • 秉承
  • 秉持 (bǐngchí)
  • 秉文
  • 秉正
  • 秉燭／秉烛 (bǐngzhú)
  • 秉燭夜遊／秉烛夜游
  • 秉燭達旦／秉烛达旦
  • 秉笏披袍
  • 秉筆／秉笔 (bǐngbǐ)
  • 秉筆直書／秉笔直书
  • 秉臺衡／秉台衡
  • 秉要執本／秉要执本
  • 秉賦／秉赋 (bǐngfù)
  • 秉鈞／秉钧
  • 秉鉞／秉钺
  • 秉鐸／秉铎
  • 風中秉燭／风中秉烛

Japanese

Kanji

秉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

秉 • ‎(byeong) (hangeul 병, revised byeong, McCune-Reischauer pyŏng, Yale pyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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