篇

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篇 U+7BC7, 篇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7BC7
← 篆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 篈 →

Translingual

Stroke order
15 strokes

Han character

篇 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸月 (HHSB) or 竹戈尸月 (HISB), four-corner 88227, composition ⿱𥫗扁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 892, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26257
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1319, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2995, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7BC7

Chinese

trad. 篇
simp. # 篇

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

Note:
  • phian - literary;
  • phiⁿ - vernacular.
Rime
Character 篇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 芳連切
Baxter phjien
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰian/
Li
Rong 		/pʰiɛn/
Wang
Li 		/pʰĭɛn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pʰi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		piān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		pin1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 篇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		piān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ phjien ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰe/
English section in writing

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 篇
Reading # 1/1
No. 711
Phonetic
component 		扁
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		篇
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰen/

Definitions

篇

  1. (historical) bound set of bamboo slips used for recordkeeping
  2. piece of writing
  3. sheet of paper
  4. Classifier for written items, book leaves, etc.: piece

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

篇

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. (of a story) part, volume

Readings

  • Go-on: へん (hen)
  • Kan-on: へん (hen)
  • Kun: まき (maki, 篇)

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

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篇 (eum 편 (pyeon))

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