釆

See also: 采 and 米

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

⾤ U+2FA4, ⾤ KANGXI RADICAL DISTINGUISH ← ⾣ [U+2FA3] Kangxi Radicals ⾥ → [U+2FA5]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #165, ⾤.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №17

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/釆
• 𤕽, 𭹏, 𠃆, 𩗞, 彩, 𫾶, 𣪖, 䧽, 𠀭, 𠳅, 𢍏, 悉, 番, 𠢏, 䎹, 𮖈, 𨁢, 𣗷, 宷, 𥦓
• 奧, 粵, 敹, 竊

References

• KangXi: page 1290, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40115
• Dae Jaweon: page 1790, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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

Etymology

Exopassive of 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive 瓣 (OC *breːns, “what is divided”). These three thus may be related to either 班 (OC *praːn, “to distribute → to arrange, classify → class, group”) or Mizo pʰel (“to split, cut in halves”) (with medial *-r- dropped after labial initials according to Mizo phonotactics) (Schuessler, 2007).

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)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biàn
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴
    • Yale: byàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
    • Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pjɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin⁶
    • Yale: bihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phien
    • Hakka Romanization System: pien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pian⁴
    • Sinological 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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baan6

• 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]ˁre[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. to distinguish; to discriminate

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Japanese

Kanji

釆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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

Readings

• Go-on: 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

釆: Hán Nôm readings: biện, thái, trảy, trẩy

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