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弁

弁

See also: 辨, 瓣, and 辯

Translingual

Shinjitai 弁
Simplified 辩、辨、瓣
Traditional 辯、辨、瓣

Han character

弁 (radical 55 廾+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿 (IT) or X戈廿 (XIT), four-corner 23440, composition ⿱厶廾)

  1. conical cap worn during Zhou dynasty

References

  • KangXi: page 353, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9588
  • Dae Jaweon: page 668, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 514, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5F01

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 弁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鴘 *pronʔ, *pʰronʔ
弁 *brons
拚 *pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
閞 *brons, *bons
昪 *brons
匥 *brons
笲 *brons, *bon, *bonʔ
軬 *bonʔ
畚 *puːnʔ

Ideogram (指事) : 厶 + 廾: hands (廾) placing a hat (厶) on someone’s head.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 弁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 仙 (79)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 皮變切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bianH/
Li
Rong		 /bjɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /bĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 biàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 弁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 biàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.[b]ro[n]-s/
English cap

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 弁
Reading # 1/1
No. 757
Phonetic
component		 弁
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 卞
Old
Chinese		 /*brons/

Definitions

弁

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Japanese

Kanji

弁

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

  • 関西弁 ‎(kansaiben, “Kansai dialect”).
  • 花弁 ‎(kaben, “petal”).

Usage notes

In Japan, this character is shinjitai of 4 characters, 辨, 瓣, 辯, and 辧. Furthermore, in modern usage, this character is used to simplify 辮 and 辦.

Suffix

弁 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 辯, hiragana べん, romaji -ben)

  1. dialect

See also

Noun

Etymology 1

弁 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 辨, hiragana べん, romaji ben)

  1. discrimination

Etymology 2

弁 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 瓣, hiragana べん, romaji ben)

  1. petal

Korean

Hanja

弁 • ‎(byeon, ban) (hangeul 변, 반, revised byeon, ban, McCune-Reischauer pyŏn, pan, Yale pyen, pan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

弁 (biền, biện)

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