鞭

鞭 U+97AD, 鞭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-97AD ← 鞬 [U+97AC] CJK Unified Ideographs 鞮 → [U+97AE]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鞭
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (便) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
鞭	pen
鯾	pen
箯	pen, *ben
便	ben, *bens
緶	ben, *peːnʔ
楩	ben, *benʔ

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)⁺
    • Pinyin: biān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: pien¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bian
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: 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 (Xiamen): /piɛn⁴⁴/, /pĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn³³/, /pĩ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn⁴⁴/, /pĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɛn⁴⁴/, /pĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn⁴⁴/, /pĩ⁴⁴/

Note:

• pian - literary;
• piⁿ - vernacular.

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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

Definitions

鞭

1. whip

   皮鞭  ―  píbiān  ―  leather whip

2. penis of a male animal

   牛鞭  ―  niúbiān  ―  bull pizzle

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

   鋼鞭 / 钢鞭  ―  gāngbiān  ―  a kind of weapon

4. string of firecrackers

   鞭炮  ―  biānpào  ―  firecrackers

Compounds

Derived terms from 鞭

• 一條鞭／一条鞭
• 九節鞭／九节鞭
• 伍員鞭屍／伍员鞭尸
• 先吾著鞭
• 先鞭
• 刺絲鞭／刺丝鞭
• 執鞭／执鞭
• 執鞭墜鐙／执鞭坠镫
• 執鞭隨鐙／执鞭随镫
• 快馬加鞭／快马加鞭
• 截鐙留鞭／截镫留鞭
• 投鞭
• 投鞭斷流／投鞭断流
• 抽鞭子
• 掌鞭
• 接絲鞭／接丝鞭
• 揚鞭／扬鞭 (yángbiān)
• 放鞭炮
• 教鞭 (jiàobiān)
• 淨鞭／净鞭
• 猛著先鞭
• 猛著祖鞭
• 皮鞭
• 祖生鞭
• 祖鞭先著

• 竹節鞭／竹节鞭
• 筍鞭／笋鞭
• 絲鞭／丝鞭
• 著先鞭
• 蒲鞭
• 蒲鞭不施
• 蒲鞭不用
• 蒲鞭之政
• 蒲鞭示辱
• 躍馬揚鞭／跃马扬鞭
• 辟歷施鞭／辟历施鞭
• 鐵鞭／铁鞭 (tiěbiān)
• 鐵鞭草／铁鞭草
• 鐵馬鞭／铁马鞭
• 雷神鞭
• 雷鞭
• 霸王鞭 (bàwángbiān)
• 靜鞭／静鞭
• 鞭不及腹
• 鞭刑 (biānxíng)
• 鞭墓
• 鞭子 (biānzi)
• 鞭尸
• 鞭屍／鞭尸
• 鞭扑

• 鞭打 (biāndǎ)
• 鞭撻／鞭挞 (biāntà)
• 鞭撾／鞭挝
• 鞭春
• 鞭毛
• 鞭毛藻
• 鞭毛蟲／鞭毛虫
• 鞭炮 (biānpào)
• 鞭牛
• 鞭石成橋／鞭石成桥
• 鞭笞 (biānchī)
• 鞭笞天下
• 鞭策 (biāncè)
• 鞭箠
• 鞭背
• 鞭蒲
• 鞭辟入裡／鞭辟入里
• 鞭辟近裡／鞭辟近里
• 鞭長莫及／鞭长莫及 (biānchángmòjí)
• 鞭韃／鞭鞑 (biāndá)
• 響鞭／响鞭
• 馬鞭／马鞭 (mǎbiān)
• 鳴鞭／鸣鞭
• 鳴鞭電抹／鸣鞭电抹
• 黨鞭／党鞭 (dǎngbiān)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

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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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