秉

秉 U+79C9, 秉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79C9 ← 秈 [U+79C8] CJK Unified Ideographs 秊 → [U+79CA]

Translingual

Han character

秉 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中 (HDL) or 難竹木中 (XHDL), four-corner 2090₇, composition ⿱丿𣏃 or ⿻禾⺕)

Derived characters

• 𠶏, 㨀, 𣶸, 棅, 𤊔, 𤦋, 𥪕, 𨧺, 𥡝, 𦱮

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 849, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24932
• Dae Jaweon: page 1272, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2592, character 5
• Unihan data for U+79C9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		秉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 秉
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (秉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
秉	*praŋʔ
棅	*praŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 禾 (“plant”) + 又 (“hand”) — a hand holding a plant by the stalk. Compare: 兼, a hand holding two plants.

Etymology

Cognate with 柄 (OC *praŋʔ, *praŋs, “a handle”), which is exopassive of 秉 (OC *praŋʔ, “to grasp”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐng (bing³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bing²
• Eastern Min (BUC): bīng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): péng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bêng²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵pin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǐng
    • Wade–Giles: ping³
    • Yale: bǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biing
    • Palladius: бин (bin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bing²
    • Yale: bíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bing²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bing²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɪŋ³⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bīng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: péng
    • Tâi-lô: píng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bêng²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: péng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peŋ⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵pin
    • MiniDict: pin^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²pin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pin³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: pjaengX

Rime
Character	秉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	兵永切
Baxter	pjaengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiæŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiaŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/piaŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piajŋX/
Li Rong	/piɐŋX/
Wang Li	/pĭɐŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ɐŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bing2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*praŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*praŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	秉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ pjængX ›
Old Chinese	/*praŋʔ/
English	grasp
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	秉
Reading #	1/1
No.	899
Phonetic component	秉
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	丙
Old Chinese	/*praŋʔ/

Definitions

秉

1. a handful of crops
2. to grasp; to hold
3. to preside over
4. to persist in; to persevere

Compounds

• 一秉至公
• 伊秉綬 / 伊秉绶
• 內秉堅孤 / 内秉坚孤
• 公秉
• 披秉
• 當風秉燭 / 当风秉烛
• 秉公 (bǐnggōng)
• 秉公無私 / 秉公无私
• 秉國 / 秉国 (bǐngguó)
• 秉彝
• 秉心
• 秉性 (bǐngxìng)
• 秉承 (bǐngchéng)
• 秉持 (bǐngchí)
• 秉文
• 秉正 (bǐngzhèng)
• 秉燭 / 秉烛 (bǐngzhú)
• 秉燭夜遊 / 秉烛夜游
• 秉燭達旦 / 秉烛达旦
• 秉笏披袍
• 秉筆 / 秉笔 (bǐngbǐ)
• 秉筆直書 / 秉笔直书 (bǐngbǐzhíshū)
• 秉臺衡 / 秉台衡
• 秉要執本 / 秉要执本
• 秉賦 / 秉赋 (bǐngfù)
• 秉鈞 / 秉钧
• 秉鉞 / 秉钺
• 秉鐸 / 秉铎
• 風中秉燭 / 风中秉烛

Japanese

Kanji

秉

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. take
2. cherish
3. sheaf
4. unit of volume (10 koku; 1,800 l)

Readings

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)
• Kan-on: へい (hei)
• Kun: とる (toru)

Korean

Hanja

秉 (eum 병 (byeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

秉: Hán Nôm readings: bỉnh, bảnh

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