釆

See also: 采 and 米

釆 U+91C6, 釆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91C6 ← 釅 [U+91C5] CJK Unified Ideographs 采 → [U+91C7]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

釆 (radical 165 釆+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹火木 (HFD) or X竹火木 (XHFD), four-corner 2090₉, composition ⿻禾丷 or ⿱丿米)

1. Kangxi radical #165, ⾤.
2. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №17

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/釆

References

• KangXi: page 1290, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40115
• Dae Jaweon: page 1790, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3898, character 1
• Unihan data for U+91C6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		釆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 釆
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phien
• Min Nan (POJ): piān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: biàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin⁶
    • Yale: bihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phien
    • Hakka Romanization System: pien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pian⁴
    • IPA: /pʰi̯en⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
    • Tâi-lô: piān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɛn³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /bˠɛn^H/▼

Rime
Character	釆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	蒲莧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠɛnH/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚænH/
Shao Rongfen	/bænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bəɨnH/
Li Rong	/bɛnH/
Wang Li	/bænH/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱănH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[b]ˤre[n]-s/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	釆
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bɛnH ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˤre[n]-s/
English	discriminate
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.

Definitions

釆

1. distinguish

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Japanese

Kanji

釆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. separate
2. divide
3. topped rice radical (no. 165)

Readings

• Goon: べん (ben)
• Kan’on: はん (han)
• On: ばん (ban), へん (hen)
• Kun: わかつ (wakatsu), わかれる (wakareru), ひずめ (hizume)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. distinguish
2. KangXi radical 165

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: biện, thái

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