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U+5F01, 弁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F01

[U+5F00]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5F02]

Translingual

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Stroke order
(Japan)
Japanese 弁 弁 弁
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 55, +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿 (IT) or 難戈廿 (XIT), four-corner 23440, composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 353, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9588
  • Dae Jaweon: page 668, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 514, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5F01


Chinese

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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

Etymology 1

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“cap; to wear a cap; low-ranking military officer; to place before or above”
Possibly related to (OC *mronʔ, “crown”) (Wang, 1982).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (79)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter bjenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/biænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bianH/
Li
Rong
/bjɛnH/
Wang
Li
/bĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bin6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
biàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjenH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.[b]ro[n]-s/
English cap

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. 757
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*brons/

Definitions

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  1. conical cap worn during the Zhou dynasty
  2. (of a man) to wear a cap (usually to indicate adulthood)
  3. (historical) low-ranking military officer
  4. to place before or above
  5. quick; rushed
  6. to panic; to shudder
  7. Alternative form of (biàn, to wrestle with bare hands)
  8. Alternative form of (Biàn, a county in Shandong)
  9. a surname

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. happy

Compounds

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Etymology 3

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to debate; to argue; to discuss”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

Etymology 4

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to distinguish; to discriminate; to prepare; to equip; etc.”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

Etymology 5

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“braid; plait; braid-like object”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. hat

Readings

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  • On (unclassified): べん (ben, Jōyō)
  • Kun: かんむり (kanmuri, )

Usage notes

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In Japan, this character is shinjitai of 3 characters, , , . Furthermore, in modern usage, this character is used to replace and .

Kanji

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. to distinguish

Readings

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Kanji

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. petal
  2. valve

Readings

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Compounds

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Kanji

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. speech

Readings

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Compounds

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Kanji

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Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. Extended shinjitai form of

Readings

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Compounds

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Kanji

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Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. Extended shinjitai form of

Readings

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Compounds

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
べん
Grade: 5
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese (MC bjenX|beanH).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(べん) (ben

  1. discrimination

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
べん
Grade: 5
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese (MC beanH).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(べん) (ben

  1. petal
  2. valve

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
べん
Grade: 5
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese (MC bjenX).

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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(べん) (-ben

  1. dialect
    (かの)(じょ)コテコテ(かん)西(さい)(べん)(はな)
    Kanojo wa kotekote no Kansaiben o hanasu.
    She speaks Kansai dialect with a strong accent.
See also
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Korean

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Hanja

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(byeon, ban) (hangeul , , revised byeon, ban, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, pan, Yale pyen, pan)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: biền, biện

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