便嬛

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Chinese

advantageous; cheap; ordinary
advantageous; cheap; ordinary; plain; convenient; handy; easy; then; so; thus; to relieve oneself
 
clever; pretty; place where supreme bestows books
trad. (便嬛) 便
simp. #(便嬛) 便

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 便
Reading # 2/2 1/3 2/3
Initial () (3) (32) (34)
Final () (77) (78) (78)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed Closed
Division () III III III
Fanqie
Baxter bjienH xjwien 'jwien
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/biᴇnH/ /hiuᴇn/ /ʔiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/biɛnH/ /hʷiɛn/ /ʔʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/bjænH/ /xjuæn/ /ʔjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bianH/ /hwian/ /ʔwian/
Li
Rong
/biɛnH/ /xiuɛn/ /ʔiuɛn/
Wang
Li
/bĭɛnH/ /xĭwɛn/ /ĭwɛn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯ɛnH/ /xi̯wɛn/ /ʔi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biàn xuān yuān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bin6 hyun1 jyun1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 便
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
biàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjienH ›
Old
Chinese
/*e-s/
English comfortable; advantageous

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 便
Reading # 2/2 1/3 2/3
No. 778 16248 16251
Phonetic
component
便
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
便
Old
Chinese
/*bens/ /*qʰʷen/ /*qʷen/

Adjective

便嬛

  1. (archaic) graceful