辮

辮

See also: 辫

辮 U+8FAE, 辮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FAE ← 辭 [U+8FAD] CJK Unified Ideographs 辯 → [U+8FAF]

Translingual

Han character

辮 (radical 160, 辛+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜十女火十 (YJVFJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛糸辛)

References

• KangXi: page 1252, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27991
• Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4044, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8FAE

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Chinese

trad.		辮
simp.		辫

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

Etymology

Exopassive of 編 (OC *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin¹
• Min Nan (POJ): piǎn / piān / pīⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: biàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin¹
    • IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piǎn
    • Tâi-lô: piǎn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
    • Tâi-lô: piān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: pīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pĩ³³/

Note:

• piǎn/piān - literary;
• pīⁿ - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /ben^X/▼

Rime
Character	辮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	薄泫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/benX/
Pan Wuyun	/benX/
Shao Rongfen	/bɛnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɛnX/
Li Rong	/benX/
Wang Li	/bienX/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱienX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-pˤe[r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ benX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-pˁe[r]ʔ/
English	braid (v., n.) (Shuōwén)
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	辮
Reading #	1/1
No.	788
Phonetic component	辡
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	辮
Old Chinese	/*beːnʔ/

Definitions

辮

1. braid; plait
2. braid-like object

Compounds

小辮兒／小辫儿 小辮子／小辫子 打辮子／打辫子 抓辮子／抓辫子 揪辮子／揪辫子 曲辮子／曲辫子

梳辮子／梳辫子 (shū biànzi) 王八辮兒／王八辫儿 盤辮子／盘辫子 翹辮子／翘辫子 (qiào biànzi) 蒜辮子／蒜辫子 解辮／解辫

蹺辮子／跷辫子 辮子／辫子 (biànzi) 辮穗頭／辫穗头 辮髮／辫发 髫辮／髫辫 髮辮／发辫 (fàbiàn)

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Japanese

Kanji

辮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: あむ (amu, 辮む)

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Korean

Hanja

辮 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

辮 (biện, bện)

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