辯

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 辩 (Chinese simplified form)
• 弁 (Japanese simplified form which also covers 辨, 瓣, 辧)

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 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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Cantonese

Hanzi

辯 (simplified 辩, Yale bin6)

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Japanese

Kanji

辯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: べん (ben), へん (hen)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), あらそう (arasou)
• shinjitai: 弁

Compounds

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

Suffix

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

1. dialect

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

辯 (simplified 辩, Pinyin biàn (bian4), Wade-Giles pien⁴)

Derived terms

• 百口莫辯 (bǎi kǒu mò biàn)
• 分辯 (fēnbiàn)
• 辯解 (biànjiě)
• 辯护
• 辯论

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Middle Chinese

Han character

辯 (*bhyɛ̌n)

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Vietnamese

Han character

辯 (biện)