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編

編

See also: 编

Translingual

Han character

編 (radical 120 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹尸月 (VFHSB) or 女火戈尸月 (VFISB), four-corner 23927, composition ⿰糸扁)

  1. knit, weave
  2. arrange
  3. compile

References

  • KangXi: page 931, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27665
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1369, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3431, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7DE8

Chinese

trad. 編
simp. 编

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ) : semantic 糸 ‎(“thread”) + phonetic 扁 ‎(OC *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ) – to knit together a book (with thread).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 編 編 編
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 幫 (1) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 仙 (77) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) IV III IV
Fanqie 布玄切 卑連切 方典切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pen/ /piᴇn/ /penX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pen/ /piɛn/ /penX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pɛn/ /pjæn/ /pɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pɛn/ /pian/ /pɛnX/
Li
Rong		 /pen/ /piɛn/ /penX/
Wang
Li		 /pien/ /pĭɛn/ /pienX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pien/ /pi̯ɛn/ /pienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 biān biān biǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 編 編
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 biān biān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pen › ‹ pjien ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤe[r]/ /*pe[r]/ (~ *mə-pe[r] in donor to HM)
English plait, weave plait, weave

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 編 編 編
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 707 728 735
Phonetic
component		 扁 扁 扁
Rime
group		 元 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 鞭 邊 編
Old
Chinese		 /*pen/ /*peːn/ /*peːnʔ/

Verb

編

  1. to weave
  2. to edit
  3. to write; to compose; to author
  4. to make up

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

編

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
編
へん
Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 編 ‎(pen).

Pronunciation

Noun

編 ‎(hiragana へん, romaji hen)

  1. compilation

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

編 • ‎(pyeon, byeon) (hangeul 편, 변, revised pyeon, byeon, McCune-Reischauer p'yŏn, pyŏn, Yale phyen, pyen)

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Compounds

  • 玉編

Vietnamese

Han character

編 (biên)

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