編

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See also: 编
編 U+7DE8, 編
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DE8
← 緧
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 緩 →

Translingual

Han character

編 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹尸月 (VFHSB) or 女火戈尸月 (VFISB), four-corner 23927, composition ⿰糹扁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 931, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27665
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1369, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3431, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7DE8

Chinese

trad. 編
simp. 编

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 編
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (扁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
斒 *preːn, *praːn
鯿 *praːn, *pen
編 *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
揙 *pen
褊 *penʔ
篇 *pʰen
偏 *pʰen, *pʰens
翩 *pʰen
媥 *pʰen
扁 *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ
萹 *pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
騗 *pʰens
騙 *pʰens
諞 *ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ
楄 *ben, *beːn
蝙 *peːn
甂 *peːn
猵 *peːn, *binʔ
牑 *peːn
蹁 *peːn, *beːn
匾 *peːnʔ
碥 *peːnʔ
惼 *peːnʔ
糄 *peːnʔ
徧 *peːns
遍 *peːns
頨 *peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan
艑 *beːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ): semantic 糸 (“thread”) + phonetic 扁 (OC *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ) – to knit together a book (with thread).

The "phonetic" 扁 is formed from 戶 door and 冊 volume, giving "to 糸 thread (i.e. sew) the 戶 door (i.e. spine) of a 冊 volume (i.e. book)." Thus the composition of the character 編 "compose" well illustrates why categorizing characters as 形聲 "phono-semantic compounds" often obscures rather than clarifies their composition.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p(r)an/t ~ b(r)an/t (“to braid; to plait; to interweave”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • peng1 - literary;
  • beng1 - expected literary reading from historical rime;
  • bing5 - vernacular (俗), “to weave with bamboo”.
Note:
  • phian/pian - literary;
  • piⁿ - vernacular;
  • pīⁿ - vernacular (俗).
Note:
  • piang1 - Shantou;
  • piêng1 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 編 編 編
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 幫 (1) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 仙 (77) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) IV III IV
Fanqie 布玄切 卑連切 方典切
Baxter pen pjien penX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pen/ /piᴇn/ /penX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pen/ /piɛn/ /penX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pɛn/ /pjæn/ /pɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pɛn/ /pian/ /pɛnX/
Li
Rong 		/pen/ /piɛn/ /penX/
Wang
Li 		/pien/ /pĭɛn/ /pienX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pien/ /pi̯ɛn/ /pienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		biān biān biǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bin1 bin1 bin2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 編 編
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		biān biān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pen › ‹ pjien ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁe/ /*pe/ (~ *mə-pe in donor to HM)
English plait, weave plait, weave

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 編 編 編
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 707 728 735
Phonetic
component 		扁 扁 扁
Rime
group 		元 元 元
Rime
subdivision 		2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		鞭 邊 編
Old
Chinese 		/*pen/ /*peːn/ /*peːnʔ/

Definitions

編

  1. to put in order; to arrange
  2. to weave; to knit; to plait
  3. to write; to compose; to author; to compile; to edit
  4. to connect; to join
  5. to make up; to fabricate
  6. (historical) cord for tying slips of inscribed bamboo or wood together
  7. part of a book; book; volume
  8. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 編
Kyūjitai
編󠄁
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(Adobe-Japan1)
編󠄃
編+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

編

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. compile
  2. weave
  3. knit

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
編
へん
Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 編 (MC pen|pjien|penX).

Pronunciation

Noun

編(へん) • (hen) 

  1. compilation
  2. (fiction) a story arc

References

  1. ^ “編”, in 漢字ぺディア ‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

編 • (pyeon, byeon) (hangeul 편, 변, revised pyeon, byeon, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏn, pyŏn, Yale phyen, pyen)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

編: Hán Nôm readings: biên

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