丙

丙 (radical 1, 一+4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一人月 (MOB), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿱一内)

• 柄 病

• KangXi: page 78, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35
• Dae Jaweon: page 156, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 16, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4E19

Historical forms of the character 丙
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j30094 j30095 j30096 j30097 j30098 j30099 j30100 j30101 j30102 j30103 j30104 j30105 j30106 j30107 j30108 j30109 j30110 j30111 j30112 j30113 j30114 j30115 j30116 j30117 j30118 j30119 j30120 j30121 j30122 j30123 j30124 j30125 Bronze inscriptions b20266 b20267 b20268 b20269 b20270 b20271 b20272 b20273 b20274 b20275 b20276 b20277 b20278 b20279 b20280 b20281 b20282 b20283 b20284 b20285 b20286 b20287 b20288 b20289 b20290 b20291 Small seal script s10945 Transcribed ancient scripts L35138 L35139 L35140 L17697 L17698 L17699 L17700 L17701 L17702 L17703 L17704 L17705 L17706 L17707 L17708 L17709
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Various theories:

• Pictogram (象形) – shoulders (Shuowen).
• Pictogram (象形) – the tail of a fish (Erya).
• Pictogram (象形) – pedestal.
• Pictogram (象形) – small table.
• Original form of 柄 (OC *praŋʔ, *praŋs).

Whatever its original sense may be, it has been lost and replaced by its early use as a heavenly stem.

丙

1. the third of the ten heavenly stems
2. third
3. (Cantonese, slang) to beat
4. A surname​.

• (heavenly stems) 天干; 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

• (Min Nan) “Entry #1304”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. something C
   1. third of the Ten Heavenly Stems
   2. third in rank

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←ひやう (fyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひのえ (hinoe, 丙)

From Middle Chinese 丙 (pjæng^X)

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) へ​ー [héꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [he̞ː]
• Homophones: へい, ヘイ, 平, 兵, 瓶, 聘, 幣, 弊, 炳

丙 (hiragana へい, rōmaji Hei)

1. something C; the third of the ten Heavenly Stems

火 (Hi, “Fire”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ひのえ [hìnóé] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [çino̞e̞]

丙 (hiragana ひのえ, rōmaji Hinoe)

1. the third of the ten Heavenly Stems

丙 • (byeong)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 병 (revised: byeong, McCune–Reischauer: pyŏng)
  • Name (hangeul): 남녘 (revised: namnyeok, McCune–Reischauer: namnyǒk')

1. third
2. 3rd heavenly stem

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 丙

丙 (bính, biếng)

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• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999