辯

See also: 辩

Translingual

Traditional	辯
Shinjitai	弁
Simplified	辩

Han character

辯 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+14, 21 strokes, cangjie input 卜十卜口十 (YJYRJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛言辛)

Derived characters

• 𡅼, 𨐾, 䉸

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1252, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38677
• Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4045, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8FAF

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Chinese

trad.		辯
simp.		辩
alternative forms		辡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 辯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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 *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 言 (“say”).

Etymology

Cognate with 辨 (OC *breːns, *brenʔ, “to distinguish”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piǎn / piān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biàn
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴
    • Yale: byàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
    • Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bin⁶
    • Yale: bihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piǎn
    • Tâi-lô: piǎn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
    • Tâi-lô: piān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /piɛn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjenX

Rime
Character	辯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符蹇切
Baxter	bjenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠiᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/biænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bianX/
Li Rong	/bjɛnX/
Wang Li	/bĭɛnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]renʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*brenʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjenX ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]renʔ/
English	distinguish, dispute (v.)
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	辯
Reading #	1/1
No.	786
Phonetic component	辡
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	辯
Old Chinese	/*brenʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 辯

1. to debate; to argue; to discuss

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Japanese

Shinjitai	弁
Kyūjitai	辯

Kanji

辯

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), あらそう (arasou)
• shinjitai: 弁

Compounds

• 関西辯(かんさいべん) (kansaiben)
• 能辯(のうべん) (nōben)
• 詭辯(きべん) (kiben)
• 辯才天(べんざいてん) (benzaiten), 辨財天(べんざいてん) (benzaiten)

Suffix

1. dialect

Usage notes

In Japanese shinjitai, 辯, 辨, 瓣 has been simplified to one character, 弁.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 辯 (biện)

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