瓣

瓣 U+74E3, 瓣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-74E3 ← 瓢 [U+74E2] CJK Unified Ideographs 瓤 → [U+74E4]

Translingual

Japanese	弁
Simplified	瓣
Traditional	瓣

Alternative forms

• 弁 (Japanese simplified form which also covers 辨 and 辯)

Han character

瓣 (Kangxi radical 97, 瓜+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹人十 (YJHOJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛瓜辛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 747, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21425
• Dae Jaweon: page 1155, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4043, character 12
• Unihan data for U+74E3

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Chinese

trad.		瓣
simp. #		瓣
2nd round simp.		⿱艹半

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
辬	*praːn
瓣	*breːns
辦	*breːns
辨	*breːns, *brenʔ
辡	*prenʔ, *brenʔ
辯	*brenʔ
辮	*beːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *breːns) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 瓜 (“melon”).

Etymology

"segment, section, piece"

Exopassive of *辨 (OC *breːns, *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive *釆 (“[to cause to be] 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).

"petal"

Either same etymon as "segment, section, piece"; or same etymon as *葩 (OC *pʰraː, “flower”); or related to 燔 (OC *ban, “to burn”), if so, semantically parallel to Tibetan མེ་ཏོག (me tog, “flower”), literally "fire-top".

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瓣

1. ^† melon seeds
2. petal
3. segment; section; piece; clove (of garlic)

   • 你再這麼淘氣，非把屁股摔成八瓣兒不可！ [MSC, trad.]
     你再这么淘气，非把屁股摔成八瓣儿不可！ [MSC, simp.]

     Nǐ zài zhème táoqì, fēi bǎ pìgǔ shuāi chéng bā bànr bùkě! [Pinyin]

     If you keep on being this naughty, you'll fall down and split your butt into eight pieces!

4. (medicine) Short for 瓣膜 (bànmó, “valve”).
5. Classifier for pieces and segments, such as those of (cut-up) fruits or petals.

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	弁
Kyūjitai	瓣

Kanji

瓣

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

1. flower petal
2. valve

Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: はなびら (hanabira)

Compounds

• 安(あん)全(ぜん)瓣(べん) (anzenben)
• 花(か)瓣(べん) (kaben)
• 豆(とう)瓣(べん)醤(しょう) (tōbenshō)

Noun

1. (anatomy) valve (membranous partition, flap, or fold, which allows flow in only one direction, e.g. a heart valve)
2. valve (device that controls the flow of a fluid through a pipe)

Synonyms

• (valve: in anatomy): 瓣膜(べんまく) (benmaku) / 弁膜(べんまく) (benmaku)
• (valve: device): バルブ (barubu)

Counter

1. flower petals

Usage notes

In Japanese shinjitai, 瓣, 辨, and 辯 have all been simplified to one character, 弁.

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Korean

Hanja

瓣 (eum 판 (pan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

瓣: Hán Nôm readings: bẹ, biện

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