弁
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Translingual
| Japanese | 弁 弁 弁 |
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| Simplified | 辩 辨 瓣 |
| Traditional | 辯 辨 瓣 |
Han character
弁 (radical 55, 廾+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿 (IT) or X戈廿 (XIT), four-corner 23440, composition ⿱厶廾)
References
- KangXi: page 353, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9588
- Dae Jaweon: page 668, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 514, character 7
- Unihan data for U+5F01
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
弁 | |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (弁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 鴘 | *pronʔ, *pʰronʔ |
| 弁 | *brons |
| 拚 | *pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns |
| 閞 | *brons, *bons |
| 昪 | *brons |
| 匥 | *brons |
| 笲 | *brons, *bon, *bonʔ |
| 軬 | *bonʔ |
| 畚 | *puːnʔ |
Ideogram (指事) : 厶 + 廾: hands (廾) placing a hat (厶) on someone’s head.
Etymology 1
- “cap; to wear a cap; low-ranking military officer; to place before or above”
- Possibly related to 冕 (OC *mronʔ, “crown”) (Wang, 1982).
Pronunciation
Definitions
弁
- conical cap worn during the Zhou dynasty
- † (of a man) to wear a cap (usually to indicate adulthood)
- 未幾見兮，突而弁兮。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Wèi jǐ jiàn xī, tū ér biàn xī. [Pinyin]
- When you see him after not a long time, Lo! he is wearing the cap!
未几见兮，突而弁兮。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (historical) low-ranking military officer
- to place before or above
- † quick; rushed
- † to panic; to shudder
- † Alternative form of 卞 (biàn, “to wrestle with bare hands”).
- † Alternative form of 卞 (Biàn, “a county in Shandong”).
- A surname.
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Compounds
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Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of 弁 – see 辯 (“to debate; to argue; to discuss”). (This character, 弁, is the second-round simplified form of 辯.) |
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Etymology 4
| For pronunciation and definitions of 弁 – see 辨 (“to distinguish; to discriminate”). (This character, 弁, is the second-round simplified form of 辨.) |
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Etymology 5
| For pronunciation and definitions of 弁 – see 辮 (“braid; plait; braid-like object”). (This character, 弁, is the second-round simplified form of 辮.) |
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Japanese
| 弁 | |
| 辨 |
| 弁 | |
| 瓣 |
| 弁 | |
| 辯 |
Readings
Usage notes
In Japan, this character is shinjitai of 3 characters, 辨, 瓣, 辯. Furthermore, in modern usage, this character is used to replace 辮 and 辦.
See also
- Category:Regional Japanese
- 方言 (hōgen, “dialect”)
Korean
Vietnamese
Han character
弁 (biền, biện)
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