鞭

Translingual

Han character

鞭 (radical 177 革+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿十人一大 (TJOMK), four-corner 4154₆)

1. whip
2. penis (non-human, as a food)
3. string of firecrackers

References

• KangXi: page 1390, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42937
• Dae Jaweon: page 1904, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4343, character 6
• Unihan data for U+97AD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		鞭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biān (bian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): piên
• Min Nan (POJ): pian / piⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: biān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: pien¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bian
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹
    • IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: piên
    • Hakka Romanization System: bien´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bian¹
    • IPA: /pi̯en²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pian / piⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: pian / pinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piefn, pvy
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɛn⁴⁴/, /pĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn⁴⁴/, /pĩ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /piᴇn/▼

Rime
Character	鞭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	卑連切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pian/
Li Rong	/piɛn/
Wang Li	/pĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*pe[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pen/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鞭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biān
Middle Chinese	‹ pjien ›
Old Chinese	/*pe[n]/
English	whip (n.)
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	鞭
Reading #	1/1
No.	770
Phonetic component	便
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鞭
Old Chinese	/*pen/
Notes	便轉註字

Noun

鞭

1. a whip

   皮鞭  ―  píbiān  ―  leather whip

2. the penis of a male animal

   牛鞭  ―  niúbiān  ―  bull pizzle

3. an ancient type of weapon, segmented and made of iron

   鋼鞭／钢鞭

4. a string of firecrackers

   鞭炮 (biānpào)

Compounds

• 鐵鞭草／铁鞭草 (tiěbiāncǎo)
• 鐵馬鞭／铁马鞭 (tiěmǎbiān)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
• 鞭 in CEDICT on MDBG

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Japanese

Kanji

鞭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Goon: へん (hen)
• Kan’on: へん (hen)
• Kan’yōon: べん (ben)
• Kun: むち (muchi), むちうつ (muchiutsu)

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Korean

Hanja

鞭 • ‎(pyeon) (hangeul 편, revised pyeon, McCune-Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鞭 (tiên, tiệm)

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