褊

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褊 U+890A, 褊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-890A
← 褉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 褋 →

Translingual

Han character

褊 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中竹尸月 (LHSB) or 中戈尸月 (LISB), four-corner 32227, composition ⿰衤扁)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1120, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34420
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1588, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3104, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+890A

Chinese

trad. 褊
simp. # 褊

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 褊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 方緬切
Baxter pjienX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/piᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/piɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pjænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pianX/
Li
Rong 		/piɛnX/
Wang
Li 		/pĭɛnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pi̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		biǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bin2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 褊
Reading # 1/1
No. 710
Phonetic
component 		扁
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		褊
Old
Chinese 		/*penʔ/

Definitions

褊

  1. ‡ tight-fitting (of clothing)
  2. (literary) narrow and small; crowded
  3. (literary) short; deficient
  4. (literary) narrow-minded; lacking in experience
  5. (literary) irritable; short-tempered
  6. (literary) Alternative form of 扁 (“flat”)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

褊

  1. Only used in 褊褼 (“fluttering”).

References

Japanese

Kanji

褊

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: へん (hen)
  • Kan-on: へん (hen)
  • Kun: せまい (semai, 褊い)

Korean

Hanja

褊 • (pyeon) (hangeul 편, revised pyeon, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)

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