鞭

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1390, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42937
• Dae Jaweon: page 1904, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pian / piⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bian
    • Wade–Giles: pien¹
    • Yale: byān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bian
    • Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: piên
    • Hakka Romanization System: bien^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bian¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pi̯en²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (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: pjien

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
Baxter	pjien
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin1

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 鞭

1. whip

   皮鞭  ―  píbiān  ―  leather whip

2. penis of an 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

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04521

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Japanese

Kanji

鞭

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kan’yō-on: べん (ben)
• Kun: むち (muchi, 鞭)、むちうつ (muchiutsu, 鞭つ)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鞭
むち Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

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Noun

鞭(むち) • (muchi) 

1. whip

   鞭(むち)で打(う)つ

   muchi de utsu

   to whip; to flog

   • 1999 March 1, “グロス [Gross]”, in BOOSTER 1, Konami:

     ムチのように長(なが)い腕(うで)で、少(すこ)し離(はな)れたところでも攻(こう)撃(げき)できる。

     Muchi no yō ni nagai ude de, sukoshi wa nareta tokoro de mo kōgeki dekiru.

     It attacks from a short distance with its long whip-like arms.

   • 2000 July 13, “ツインテール [Twin-Tail]”, in Pharaoh’s Servant －ファラオのしもべ－, Konami:

     ムチのようなしっぽ２本(ほん)を振(ふ)り回(まわ)し攻(こう)撃(げき)する、水(すい)中(ちゅう)生(せい)物(ぶつ)。

     Muchi no yō na shippo ni-hon o furimawashi kōgeki suru, suichū seibutsu.

     An aquatic creature that attacks by brandishing its 2 whip-like tails.

Alternative forms

• 笞, 策

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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

(deprecated template usage) 鞭 (tiên, tiệm)

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