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Translingual

Han character

(radical 160 +13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜十女火十 (YJVFJ), four-corner 00441)

  1. braid
  2. pigtail, plait, queue

References

  • KangXi: page 1252, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27991
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4044, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8FAE

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*praːn
*breːns
*breːns
*breːns, *brenʔ
*prenʔ, *brenʔ
*brenʔ
*beːnʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (85)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/benX/
Pan
Wuyun
/benX/
Shao
Rongfen
/bɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bɛnX/
Li
Rong
/benX/
Wang
Li
/bienX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
biàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ benX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-pˤe[r]ʔ/
English braid (v., n.) (Shuōwén)

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. 788
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*beːnʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 小辮兒小辫儿
  • 小辮子小辫子
  • 打辮子打辫子
  • 抓辮子抓辫子
  • 揪辮子揪辫子
  • 曲辮子曲辫子
  • 梳辮子梳辫子 (shūbiànzi)
  • 王八辮兒王八辫儿
  • 盤辮子盘辫子
  • 翹辮子翘辫子
  • 蒜辮子蒜辫子
  • 解辮解辫
  • 蹺辮子跷辫子
  • 辮子辫子 (biànzi)
  • 辮穗頭辫穗头
  • 辮髮辫发
  • 髫辮髫辫
  • 髮辮发辫 (fàbiàn)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(biện, bện)

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