弁

See also 辨, 瓣, and 辯

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

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

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

弁 (Yale bin6)

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Japanese

Kanji

弁 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: べん (ben), へん (hen)
• Kun: かんむり (kammuri), わける (wakeru), わきまえる (wakimaeru)

Compounds

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

Usage notes

In Japan, this character is shinjitai of 3 or 4 characters, 辨, 瓣, 辯.

See also

• Category:Regional Japanese
• 方言 (ほうげん, hōgen, “dialect”)

Suffix

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

1. dialect

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

弁 (pinyin biàn (bian4), Wade-Giles pien⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

弁 (biện, biền)