偏

Translingual

Han character

偏 (radical 9 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人竹尸月 (OHSB) or 人戈尸月 (OISB), four-corner 2322₇, composition ⿰亻扁)

1. inclined on one side
2. slanting

References

• KangXi: page 110, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 848
• Dae Jaweon: page 235, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 195, character 10
• Unihan data for U+504F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		偏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piān (pian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pin¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phiên

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: piān
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ien¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pian
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pin¹
    • Yale: pīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pin¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phiên
    • Hakka Romanization System: pien´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pian¹
    • IPA: /pʰi̯en²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰiᴇn/, /pʰiᴇn^H/▼

Rime
Character	偏	偏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	芳連切	匹戰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇn/	/pʰiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛn/	/pʰiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰjæn/	/pʰjænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰian/	/pʰianH/
Li Rong	/pʰiɛn/	/pʰiɛnH/
Wang Li	/pʰĭɛn/	/pʰĭɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ɛn/	/pʰi̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	piān	piàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*pʰe[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰen/, /*pʰens/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	偏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	piān
Middle Chinese	‹ phjien ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰe[n]/
English	oblique; subordinate
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	偏	偏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	712	718
Phonetic component	扁	扁
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	篇	騗
Old Chinese	/*pʰen/	/*pʰens/

Definitions

偏

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Derived terms

• 偏頭痛／偏头痛 (piāntóutòng)
• 偏見／偏见 (piānjiàn, “bias”)
• 偏偏 (piānpiān)

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Japanese

Noun

偏 ‎(hiragana へん, romaji hen)

1. the left-hand radical of a kanji

Kanji

偏

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: へん (hen)
• Kun: かたよる (偏る, katayoru), ひとえに (偏に, hitoeni)

Compounds

• 不偏
• 普偏
• 偏愛
• 周波数偏移
• 偏奇
• 偏狂
• 偏狭
• 偏屈, 偏窟
• 偏見
• 偏光
• 偏向
• 偏好
• 偏差
• 偏在
• 偏執
• 偏斜
• 偏重
• 偏食
• 偏心
• 偏針
• 偏人
• 偏頗
• 偏性
• 偏西風
• 偏土
• 偏頭痛
• 偏波
• 偏微分
• 偏平
• 偏癖
• 偏癖
• 偏片
• 偏辺
• 偏流
• 偏旁
• 獣偏
• 人偏

Related terms

• 偏降り
• 偏照り

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Korean

Hanja

偏 • ‎(pyeon) (hangeul 편, revised pyeon, McCune-Reischauer p'yŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

偏 (thiên, xiên, xen)

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