辯

See also: 辩

Translingual

Traditional	辯
Shinjitai	弁
Simplified	辩

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *brenʔ): 辡 + 言 ‎(“say”)

Han character

辯 (radical 160 辛+14, 21 strokes, cangjie input 卜十卜口十 (YJYRJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿴辡言)

1. dispute, argue, debate, discuss

References

• KangXi: page 1252, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38677
• Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4045, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8FAF

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Chinese

trad.		辯
simp.		辩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): piān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: biàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin⁶
    • Yale: bihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
    • Tâi-lô: piān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pien
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɛn³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /bˠiᴇn^X/▼

Rime
Character	辯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	符蹇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠiᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/biænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bianX/
Li Rong	/bjɛnX/
Wang Li	/bĭɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[b]renʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*brenʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjenX ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]renʔ/
English	distinguish, dispute (v.)
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	辯
Reading #	1/1
No.	786
Phonetic component	辡
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	辯
Old Chinese	/*brenʔ/

Definitions

辯

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Derived terms

• 百口莫辯／百口莫辩 (bǎikǒu-mòbiàn)
• 分辯／分辩 (fēnbiàn)
• 辯解／辩解 (biànjiě)
• 辯護／辩护 (biànhù)
• 辯論／辩论 (biànlùn)

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Japanese

Kanji

辯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

Readings

• Goon: べん (ben)
• Kan’on: へん (hen)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), あらそう (arasou)
• shinjitai: 弁

Compounds

• 関西辯 (かんさいべ) ‎(kansaibe)
• 能辯 (のうべ) ‎(nōbe)
• 詭辯 (きべ) ‎(kibe)
• 辯才天 (べんざいて) ‎(benzaite), 辨財天 (べんざいて) ‎(benzaite)

Suffix

辯 ‎(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 弁, hiragana べん, romaji ben)

1. dialect

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Korean

Hanja

辯 • ‎(byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune-Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

辯 (biện)

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