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篇

篇

Translingual

Han character

篇 (radical 118 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸月 (HHSB) or 竹戈尸月 (HISB), four-corner 88227)

  1. chapter, section, essay, article

References

  • KangXi: page 892, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26257
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1319, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2995, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7BC7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 篇

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 篇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 芳連切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰian/
Li
Rong		 /pʰiɛn/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 piān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 篇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 piān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phjien ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰe[n]/
English section in writing

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 篇
Reading # 1/1
No. 711
Phonetic
component		 扁
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 篇
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰen/

Definitions

篇

  1. (Advanced Mandarin) sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
  2. classifier for written items: chapter, article

Japanese

Kanji

篇

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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