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Translingual

Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

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

  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.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pronʔ, *pʰronʔ
*brons
*pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
*brons, *bons
*brons
*brons
*brons, *bon, *bonʔ
*bonʔ
*puːnʔ

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (79)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 757
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*brons/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(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, , , , and . Furthermore, in modern usage, this character is used to simplify and .

Suffix

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

  1. dialect

See also

Noun

Etymology 1

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

  1. discrimination

Etymology 2

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

  1. petal

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(biền, biện)

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