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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 言 (“say”).

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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