辮

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See also: 辫
辮 U+8FAE, 辮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FAE
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 辯 →

Translingual

Han character

辮 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜十女火十 (YJVFJ), four-corner 00441, composition ⿲辛糹辛)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1252, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27991
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4044, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8FAE

Chinese

trad. 辮
simp. 辫
2nd round simp. 弁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 辮
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (辡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
辬 *praːn
瓣 *breːns
辦 *breːns
辨 *breːns, *brenʔ
辡 *prenʔ, *brenʔ
辯 *brenʔ
辮 *beːnʔ

Etymology

Exopassive of 編 (OC *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • piǎn/piān - literary;
  • pīⁿ - vernacular.
Note:
  • bin1 - "plait";
  • bin6 - verb ("to weave").
    Rime
    Character 辮
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 並 (3)
    Final (韻) 先 (85)
    Tone (調) Rising (X)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) IV
    Fanqie 薄泫切
    Baxter benX
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/benX/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/benX/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/bɛnX/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/bɛnX/
    Li
    Rong         		/benX/
    Wang
    Li         		/bienX/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/bʱienX/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		biàn
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		bin6
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 辮
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		biàn
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ benX ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*m-pˁeʔ/
    English braid (v., n.) (Shuōwén)

    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 辮
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 788
    Phonetic
    component         		辡
    Rime
    group         		元
    Rime
    subdivision         		2
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		辮
    Old
    Chinese         		/*beːnʔ/

    Definitions

    辮

    1. braid; plait
    2. braid-like object

    Synonyms

    Dialectal synonyms of 辮子 (“queue; plaits; pigtail”)
    Variety Location Words
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 辮子
    Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 辮子
    Harbin 辮子
    Jilu Mandarin Jinan 辮子
    Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 辮子
    Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 辮子
    Wanrong 辮子, 頭辮子
    Xi'an 帽蓋子, 辮子
    Xining 辮子, 辮辮
    Xuzhou 辮子
    Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 辮子
    Ürümqi 辮子
    Southwestern Mandarin Wuhan 辮子
    Guiyang 辮子
    Liuzhou 辮子
    Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 辮子
    Yangzhou 辮子
    Cantonese Guangzhou 辮
    Hong Kong 辮
    Gan Nanchang 辮子
    Lichuan 辮子
    Pingxiang 辮子
    Hakka Meixian 毛辮仔
    Yudu 辮子
    Jin Taiyuan 辮子
    Xinzhou 辮子
    Eastern Min Fuzhou 辮辮
    Southern Min Xiamen 頭鬃尾, 髻仔
    Quanzhou 髻尾, 髻仔尾, 髻仔
    Yongchun 髻囝尾
    Zhangzhou 頭鬃尾, 頭鬃尾仔, 頭鬃仔尾
    Zhao'an 鬃仔
    New Taipei (Tamsui) 頭鬃尾仔, 頭鬃尾
    Kaohsiung (Cijin) 毛尾仔
    Changhua (Yongjing) 囟鬃仔
    Tainan (Anping) 毛尾仔
    Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng) 頭毛尾仔
    Penghu (Xiyu) 鬃尾仔
    Shantou 辮
    Jieyang 辮
    Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 辮子
    Wu Shanghai 辮子
    Shanghai (Chongming) 辮子
    Suzhou 辮子
    Danyang 辮子
    Hangzhou 辮兒
    Ningbo 辮子
    Wenzhou 辮兒
    Jinhua 辮兒
    Xiang Changsha 辮韃子
    Loudi 辮子

    Compounds

    Japanese

    Kanji

    辮

    (Hyōgai kanji)

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    Readings

    • Go-on: べん (ben)
    • Kan-on: へん (hen)
    • Kun: あむ (amu, 辮む)

    Korean

    Hanja

    辮 (eum 변 (byeon))

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    辮: Hán Nôm readings: biện, bện

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