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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 162 +15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹山尸 (YHUS), four-corner 36302, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1267, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39216
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1765, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3894, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+908A

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*men
*men, *meːn
*men
*mpeːn
*mpeːn

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pian⁵⁵/
Harbin /pian⁴⁴/
Tianjin /pian²¹/
Jinan /piã²¹³/
Qingdao /piã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /pian²⁴/
Xi'an /piã²¹/
Xining /piã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pian⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /piɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /pian⁴⁴/
Wuhan /piɛn⁵⁵/
Chengdu /pian⁵⁵/
Guiyang /pian⁵⁵/
Kunming /piɛ̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /pien³¹/
Hefei /piĩ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /pie¹¹/
Pingyao /pie̞¹³/
Hohhot /pie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /pi⁵³/
Suzhou /piɪ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /piẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /pi³³/
Hui Shexian /pe³¹/
Tunxi /piɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /piẽ³³/
Xiangtan /piẽ³³/
Gan Nanchang /piɛn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /pien⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /pien²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pin⁵³/
Nanning /pin⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pin⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pian⁵⁵/
/pĩ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pieŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /piŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /piaŋ³³/
/pĩ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbin²³/
/ʔbi²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pen/
Pan
Wuyun
/pen/
Shao
Rongfen
/pɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pɛn/
Li
Rong
/pen/
Wang
Li
/pien/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
biān
Middle
Chinese
‹ pen ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˤe[n]/
English side

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 # 1/1
No. 9056
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mpeːn/

Definitions

  1. edge; border; side
  2. border; boundary
  3. (geometry) side
  4. Suffix for locality noun.
  5. (used before each verb of simultaneous actions) while
  6. (Cantonese) where
  7. (Cantonese) which
  8. (Cantonese) how could one possibly

Synonyms

  • (where):
Dialectal synonyms of 哪裡 (“where”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 何處何許
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 哪裡
Mandarin Beijing 哪兒、哪兒合兒 colloquial、哪合兒 colloquial
Taiwan 哪裡
Tianjin 哪兒、哪兒合兒 colloquial、哪合兒 colloquial
Jinan 哪裡
Xi'an 哪搭兒
Wuhan 哪裡、啥裡、哪塊些、啥塊些
Chengdu 哪兒
Yangzhou 哪塊
Hefei 哪格子、哪蒿子、哪塊子、哪塊
Cantonese Guangzhou 邊度邊處
Hong Kong 邊度邊處
Taishan
Yangjiang 邊處、邊處塗
Hakka Meixian 哪仔
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 哪位
Liudui (S. Sixian) 、哪仔、哪跡仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 哪位
Dongshi (Dabu) 哪位
Zhuolan (Raoping) 哪位
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 哪位
Jin Taiyuan 哪裡
Min Bei Jian'ou 呢裡
Min Dong Fuzhou 底所、底塊
Min Nan Quanzhou 佗落、佗一位、佗位
Xiamen 佗落、佗一位、佗位、佗一帶、佗帶
Zhangzhou 佗落、佗落仔、、佗一位、佗位
Taipei 佗位
Kaohsiung 佗位
Tainan 佗位
Taichung 佗位
Yilan 佗位、佗位仔
Lukang 佗落
Sanxia 佗位
Kinmen
Magong 佗位
Hsinchu 佗位
Malaysia 佗落
Chaozhou 底塊、底囝
Wu Shanghai 阿裡啥地方阿裡搭、啥場化 dated
Suzhou 啥場化
Wenzhou 若屋宕、若屋
Xiang Changsha 哪裡、何至、啥塊子
Shuangfeng 哪裡

Compounds

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(byeon) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(biên, ben, bên, ven)

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