篇

Translingual

Han character

篇 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸月 (HHSB) or 竹戈尸月 (HISB), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱𥫗扁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 892, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26257
• Dae Jaweon: page 1319, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2995, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7BC7

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Chinese

trad.		篇
simp. #		篇

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
斒	*preːn, *praːn
鯿	*praːn, *pen
編	*pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
揙	*pen
褊	*penʔ
篇	*pʰen
偏	*pʰen, *pʰens
翩	*pʰen
媥	*pʰen
扁	*pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ
萹	*pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
騗	*pʰens
騙	*pʰens
諞	*ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ
楄	*ben, *beːn
蝙	*peːn
甂	*peːn
猵	*peːn, *binʔ
牑	*peːn
蹁	*peːn, *beːn
匾	*peːnʔ
碥	*peːnʔ
惼	*peːnʔ
糄	*peːnʔ
徧	*peːns
遍	*peːns
頨	*peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan
艑	*beːnʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piān (pian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pin¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phiên
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phian / phiⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piān
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pian
    • Wade–Giles: pʻien¹
    • Yale: pyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pian
    • Palladius: пянь (pjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pin¹
    • Yale: pīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: pin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phiên
    • Hakka Romanization System: pien´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pian¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰi̯en²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phian / phiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: phian / phinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiefn, phvy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/, /pʰĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiɛn³³/, /pʰĩ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/, /pʰĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/, /pʰĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/, /pʰĩ⁴⁴/

Note:

• phian - literary;
• phiⁿ - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: phjien

Rime
Character	篇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	芳連切
Baxter	phjien
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰian/
Li Rong	/pʰiɛn/
Wang Li	/pʰĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	piān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pin1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰe[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰen/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	篇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	piān
Middle Chinese	‹ phjien ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰe[n]/
English	section in writing
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	篇
Reading #	1/1
No.	711
Phonetic component	扁
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	篇
Old Chinese	/*pʰen/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 篇

1. (historical) bound set of bamboo slips used for recordkeeping
2. piece of writing
3. sheet of paper
4. Classifier for written items, book leaves, etc.: piece

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

篇

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: まき (maki, 篇)

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Korean

Hanja

篇 • (pyeon) (hangeul 편, revised pyeon, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)

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