辯

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• Alternate forms:
• 辩 (Chinese simplified form)
• 弁 (Japanese simplified form which also covers 辨, 瓣, 辧)

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Derived terms 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 辡 + 言 (“‘say’”)

[edit] Han character

辯 (radical 160 辛+14, 21 strokes, cangjie input 卜十卜口十 (YJYRJ), four-corner 0044₁)

1. dispute, argue, debate, discuss

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1252, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38677
• Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4045, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8FAF

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

辯 (simplified 辩, Yale bin6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

辯

[edit] Readings

• On: べん (ben), へん (hen)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), あらそう (arasou)
• Shinjitai: 弁

[edit] Compounds

• 関西辯 (かんさいべん)
• 能辯 (のうべん)
• 詭辯 (きべん)
• 辯才天, 辨財天 (べんざいてん)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

辯 (simplified 辩, pinyin biàn (bian4), Wade-Giles pien⁴)

[edit] Derived terms

• 百口莫辯 (bǎi kǒu mò biàn)
• 分辯 (fēnbiàn)
• 辯解 (biànjiě)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

辯 (*bhyɛ̌n)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

辯 (biện)