編

See also: 编

Translingual

Han character

編 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹尸月 (VFHSB) or 女火戈尸月 (VFISB), four-corner 2392₇, composition ⿰糸扁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 931, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27665
• Dae Jaweon: page 1369, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3431, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7DE8

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Chinese

trad.		編
simp.		编

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ) : semantic 糸 (“thread”) + phonetic 扁 (OC *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ) – to knit together a book (with thread).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p(r)an/t ~ b(r)an/t (“to braid; to plait; to interweave”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biān (bian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pin¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phiên
• Eastern Min (BUC): piĕng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phian / pian / piⁿ / pīⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): piang¹ / piêng¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹pi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bian
    • Wade–Giles: pien¹
    • Yale: byān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bian
    • Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• 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/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: piĕng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰieŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phian
    • Tâi-lô: phian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiefn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pian
    • Tâi-lô: pian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piefn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /piɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: pinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: pīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pĩ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pĩ³³/

Note:

• phian/pian - literary;
• piⁿ - vernacular;
• pīⁿ - vernacular (俗).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: piang¹ / piêng¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phiang / phieng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiaŋ³³/, /pʰieŋ³³/

Note:

• piang1 - Shantou;
• piêng1 - Chaozhou.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹pi
    • MiniDict: pi^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹pi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pi⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: pen, pjien, penX

Rime
Character	編	編	編
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	仙 (77)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III	IV
Fanqie	布玄切	卑連切	方典切
Baxter	pen	pjien	penX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pen/	/piᴇn/	/penX/
Pan Wuyun	/pen/	/piɛn/	/penX/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛn/	/pjæn/	/pɛnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛn/	/pian/	/pɛnX/
Li Rong	/pen/	/piɛn/	/penX/
Wang Li	/pien/	/pĭɛn/	/pienX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pien/	/pi̯ɛn/	/pienX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biān	biān	biǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin1	bin1	bin2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤe[r]/, /*pe[r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pen/, /*peːn/, /*peːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	編	編
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biān	biān
Middle Chinese	‹ pen ›	‹ pjien ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁe[r]/	/*pe[r]/ (~ *mə-pe[r] in donor to HM)
English	plait, weave	plait, weave
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	編	編	編
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	707	728	735
Phonetic component	扁	扁	扁
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	鞭	邊	編
Old Chinese	/*pen/	/*peːn/	/*peːnʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 編

1. to put in order; to arrange
2. to weave; to knit; to plait
3. to write; to compose; to author; to compile; to edit
4. to connect; to join
5. to make up; to fabricate
6. (historical) cord for tying slips of inscribed bamboo or wood together
7. part of a book; book; volume
8. a surname

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

編

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. compile
2. weave
3. knit

Readings

• Go-on: へん (hen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: へん (hen, Jōyō)
• Kun: あむ (amu, 編む, Jōyō); とじいと (tojīto, 編); ふみ (fumi, 編)

Compounds

Compounds

• 短編(たんぺん) (tanpen)
• 長編(ちょうへん) (chōhen)
• 編集(へんしゅう) (henshū)
• 編鐘(へんしょう) (henshō): bianzhong

Etymology

Kanji in this term
編
へん Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 編 (pen).

Noun

編(へん) • (hen) 

1. compilation
2. (fiction) a story arc

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Korean

Hanja

編 • (pyeon, byeon) (hangeul 편, 변, revised pyeon, byeon, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏn, pyŏn, Yale phyen, pyen)

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Compounds

• 玉編

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Vietnamese

Han character

編: Hán Nôm readings: biên

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