瓣

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瓣 U+74E3, 瓣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-74E3
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 瓤 →

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

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 *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive 釆 (“ 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) (Schuessler, 2007).
"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".

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 瓣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 蒲莧切
Baxter beanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bˠɛnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bᵚænH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/bænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/bəɨnH/
Li
Rong 		/bɛnH/
Wang
Li 		/bænH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱănH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		baan6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 瓣
Reading # 1/1
No. 781
Phonetic
component 		辡
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		瓣
Old
Chinese 		/*breːns/

Definitions

瓣

  1. † melon seeds
  2. petal
  3. segment; section; piece; clove (of garlic)
  4. (medicine) Short for 瓣膜 (bànmó, “valve”).
    二尖瓣  ―  èrjiānbàn  ―  mitral valve; bicuspid valve
  5. Classifier for pieces and segments, such as those of (cut-up) fruits or petals.
  6. (Cantonese) Classifier for domains of activity.; field
    瓣瓣掂 [Cantonese]  ―  faan6 faan6 dim6   ―  great at everything; versatile

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

弁

Kyūjitai

瓣

Kanji

瓣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

  1. flower petal
  2. valve

Readings

Compounds

Noun

瓣(べん) • (ben) 

  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

Counter

瓣(べん) • (-ben) 

  1. flower petals

Usage notes

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

Korean

Hanja

瓣 (eum 판 (pan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

瓣: Hán Nôm readings: bẹ, biện

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