蝙

Translingual

Han character

蝙 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹尸月 (LIHSB) or 中戈戈尸月 (LIISB), four-corner 5312₇, composition ⿰虫扁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1089, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33271
• Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2873, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8759

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Chinese

trad.		蝙
simp. #		蝙

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): biān (bian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin¹ / bin² / pin¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pian / pián

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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: bin¹ / bin² / pin¹
    • Yale: bīn / bín / pīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹ / bin² / pin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin¹ / bin² / pin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵/, /piːn³⁵/, /pʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pian
    • Tâi-lô: pian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piefn
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /piɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pián
    • Tâi-lô: pián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piern
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /piɛn⁵³/

Note:

• pian - literary;
• pián - literary (Zhangzhou);
• pián - vernacular (俗, Quanzhou, Taiwan, Xiamen).

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• Middle Chinese: pen

Rime
Character	蝙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	布玄切
Baxter	pen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pen/
Pan Wuyun	/pen/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛn/
Li Rong	/pen/
Wang Li	/pien/
Bernard Karlgren	/pien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*peːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝙
Reading #	1/1
No.	725
Phonetic component	扁
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	邊
Old Chinese	/*peːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蝙

1. Only used in 蝙蝠 (biānfú, “bat”).

References

• “蝙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

蝙

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. bat

Readings

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: こうもり (kōmori, 蝙)^{←かうもり (kaumori, 蝙, historical)}

Compounds

• 蝙蝠(こうもり) (kōmori), 蝙蝠(かわほり) (kawahori), 蝙蝠(へんぷく) (henpuku): bat (small flying mammal of order Chiroptera)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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