辯

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

• 𡅼, 𨐾, 䉸

• 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

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 言 (“say”). However, the phonetic component (which is the reduplication of the Kangxi radical of the knife to mark prisoners) perhaps symbolizes two prisoners accusing each other, hence "debating in an aggressive manner".

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

辯

1. to debate; to argue; to discuss
2. ^† Alternative form of 辨 (“to distinguish; to differentiate”)

   • 上天下澤，履，君子以辯上下，安民志。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     上天下泽，履，君子以辩上下，安民志。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: I Ching, 11^th – 8^th century BCE

     Shàng tiān xià zé, lǚ, jūnzǐ yǐ biàn shàngxià, ān mínzhì.

     (The trigram representing) the sky above, and below it (that representing the waters of) a marsh, form Lu. The superior man, in accordance with this, discriminates between high and low, and gives settlement to the aims of the people.

• “辯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: わける (wakeru)、あらそう (arasō)

辯(べん) • (-ben) 

1. dialect

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

From Middle Chinese 辯 (MC bjenX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

辯

Wikisource

辯 (eumhun 말씀 변 (malsseum byeon))

1. hanja form^? of 변 (“debate; discuss”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

辯: Hán Nôm readings: biện

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