秉

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秉 U+79C9, 秉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79C9
← 秈
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 秊 →

Translingual

Han character

秉 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中 (HDL) or 難竹木中 (XHDL), four-corner 20907, composition ⿱丿𣏃 or ⿻禾⺕)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 849, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24932
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1272, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2592, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+79C9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 秉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 秉
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (秉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
秉 *praŋʔ
棅 *praŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 禾 (“plant”) + 又 (“hand”) — a hand holding a plant by the stalk. Compare: 兼, a hand holding two plants.

Etymology

Cognate with 柄 (OC *praŋʔ, *praŋs, “a handle”), which is exopassive of 秉 (OC *praŋʔ, “to grasp”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 秉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 兵永切
Baxter pjaengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠiæŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚiaŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piaŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/piajŋX/
Li
Rong 		/piɐŋX/
Wang
Li 		/pĭɐŋX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pi̯ɐŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bǐng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bing2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 秉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bǐng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjængX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*praŋʔ/
English grasp

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 秉
Reading # 1/1
No. 899
Phonetic
component 		秉
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		丙
Old
Chinese 		/*praŋʔ/

Definitions

秉

  1. a handful of crops
  2. to grasp; to hold
  3. to preside over
  4. to persist in; to persevere

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

秉

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. take
  2. cherish
  3. sheaf
  4. unit of volume (10 koku; 1,800 l)

Readings

  • Go-on: ひょう (hyō)
  • Kan-on: へい (hei)
  • Kun: とる (toru)

Korean

Hanja

秉 (eum 병 (byeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

秉: Hán Nôm readings: bỉnh, bảnh

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