編

See also 编

Translingual

simpl.		编
trad.		編

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糸 (“thread”) + phonetic 扁 – to knit together a book (with thread).

Han character

編 (radical 120 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹尸月 (VFHSB), 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

編 (simplified 编, Yale pin1)

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Japanese

Kanji

編 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: へん (hen)
• Kun: あむ (amu), とじいと (tojiito), ふみ (fumi)

Compounds

短編 (たんぺん, tanpen)

長編 (ちょうへん, chōhen)

編集 (へんしゅう, henshū)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

編 (simplified 编, pinyin biān (bian1), Wade-Giles pien¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

編 (biên)