辮

See also: 辫

Translingual

Han character

辮 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜十女火十 (YJVFJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛糸辛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1252, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27991
• Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4044, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8FAE

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Chinese

trad.		辮
simp.		辫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
辬	*praːn
瓣	*breːns
辦	*breːns
辨	*breːns, *brenʔ
辡	*prenʔ, *brenʔ
辯	*brenʔ
辮	*beːnʔ

Etymology

Exopassive of 編 (OC *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piǎn / piān / pīⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biàn
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴
    • Yale: byàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
    • Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biànr
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biànr
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: byànr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biall
    • Palladius: бяньр (bjanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piǎn
    • Tâi-lô: piǎn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
    • Tâi-lô: piān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: pīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pĩ³³/

Note:

• piǎn/piān - literary;
• pīⁿ - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: benX

Rime
Character	辮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	薄泫切
Baxter	benX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/benX/
Pan Wuyun	/benX/
Shao Rongfen	/bɛnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɛnX/
Li Rong	/benX/
Wang Li	/bienX/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱienX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-pˤe[r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ benX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-pˁe[r]ʔ/
English	braid (v., n.) (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	辮
Reading #	1/1
No.	788
Phonetic component	辡
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	辮
Old Chinese	/*beːnʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 辮

1. braid; plait
2. braid-like object

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Japanese

Kanji

辮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: あむ (amu, 辮む)

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Korean

Hanja

辮 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 辮 (biện, bện)

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