秉

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⿻コ一)

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

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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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐng (bing³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bing²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): péng

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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/
• 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/

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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/
Bernard 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

(deprecated template usage) 秉

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

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Japanese

Kanji

秉

(uncommon “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)

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Korean

Hanja

秉 (eum 병 (byeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

秉: Hán Nôm readings: bỉnh, bảnh

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