蹁

Translingual

Han character

蹁 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口一竹尸月 (RMHSB) or 口一戈尸月 (RMISB), four-corner 6712₇, composition ⿰⻊扁)

1. splayfoot
2. knee

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1230, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37717
• Dae Jaweon: page 1702, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3726, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8E41

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Chinese

trad.		蹁
simp. #		蹁

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): pián (pian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pián
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pián
    • Wade–Giles: pʻien²
    • Yale: pyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyan
    • Palladius: пянь (pjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pin⁴
    • Yale: pìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ben, pen

Rime
Character	蹁	蹁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	部田切	布玄切
Baxter	ben	pen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ben/	/pen/
Pan Wuyun	/ben/	/pen/
Shao Rongfen	/bɛn/	/pɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɛn/	/pɛn/
Li Rong	/ben/	/pen/
Wang Li	/bien/	/pien/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱien/	/pien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pián	biān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pin4	bin1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*bˤe[r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*peːn/, /*beːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蹁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pián
Middle Chinese	‹ ben ›
Old Chinese	/*bˁe[r]/
English	蹁蹮 walk with difficulty (Shuōwén)
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	蹁	蹁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	731	742
Phonetic component	扁	扁
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	邊	蹁
Old Chinese	/*peːn/	/*beːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蹁

1. walk with a limp

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Japanese

Kanji

蹁

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to walk with a limp

Readings

• On (unclassified): へん (hen); べん (ben)
• Kun: よろめく (yoromeku)

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Korean

Hanja

蹁 (eum 편 (pyeon))

1. totter
2. knee

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Vietnamese

Han character

蹁: Hán Nôm readings: biên

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References

• Nom Foundation