See also:
U+6241, 扁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6241

[U+6240]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6242]

Translingual

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

(radical 63, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸月廿 (HSBT) or 戈尸月廿 (ISBT) or X戈尸月廿 (XISBT), four-corner 30227, composition or ⿸ or ⿸)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 415, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11724
  • Dae Jaweon: page 760, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2261, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6241

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*preːn, *praːn
鯿 *praːn, *pen
*pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
*pen
*penʔ
*pʰen
*pʰen, *pʰens
*pʰen
*pʰen
*pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ
*pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
*pʰens
*pʰens
*ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ
*ben, *beːn
*peːn
*peːn
*peːn, *binʔ
*peːn
*peːn, *beːn
*peːnʔ
*peːnʔ
*peːnʔ
*peːnʔ
*peːns
*peːns
*peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan
*beːnʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (door) +  (bamboo tablets) – to inscribe on the door.

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • bēng - vernacular;
  • biēng - literary.
Note:
  • pián - literary;
  • píⁿ/pín/pún - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 2/4 4/4 3/4
Initial () (1) (3) (3)
Final () (85) (77) (85)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () IV III IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/penX/ /biᴇnX/ /benX/
Pan
Wuyun
/penX/ /biɛnX/ /benX/
Shao
Rongfen
/pɛnX/ /bjænX/ /bɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pɛnX/ /bianX/ /bɛnX/
Li
Rong
/penX/ /biɛnX/ /benX/
Wang
Li
/pienX/ /bĭɛnX/ /bienX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pienX/ /bʱi̯ɛnX/ /bʱienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biǎn biàn biàn
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
biǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ penX ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˁe[r]ʔ/
English flat and thin

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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
Reading # 3/4 2/4 4/4
No. 732 724 744
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*peːnʔ/ /*benʔ/ /*beːnʔ/
Definitions

  1. flat and thin (like a pancake)
       cǎibiǎn   to trample flat
  2. to inscribe on the door
  3. to curl one's lips
  4. to underestimate; to underrate
  5. (dialectal) to beat; to give someone a good beating
  6. (dialectal) to hide in the waist
  7. Original form of (biǎn, “horizontal inscribed board; tablet; signboard”).
  8. A surname.
See also
  • ()
  • (píng, “flat; smooth; level”)
Compounds

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/4
Initial () (2)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰian/
Li
Rong
/pʰiɛn/
Wang
Li
/pʰĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
piān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/4
No. 715
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰen/
Definitions

  1. small; little; narrow
  2. Alternative form of (piān, “out-of-the-way; remote; one-sided”).
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“common knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare”).
(This character, , is the second-round simplified form of .)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“a kind of bean with flat pods”).
(This character, , is the second-round simplified form of .)
Notes:

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the second-round simplified form of .)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. flat (adjective)

Readings

  • Go-on: へん (hen)
  • Kan-on: へん (hen)
  • Kun: ひらたい (hiratai, 扁たい)

Korean

Hanja

• (pyeon, byeon)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): , (revised: pyeon, byeon, McCuneReischauer: p'yŏn, pyŏn, Yale: phyen, pyen)
    • Name (hangeul): 작을
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Vietnamese

Han character

扁 (biển, bẽn, bên, thiên)

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