辨

See also: 辯, 瓣, 辧, and 辦

辨	U+8FA8, 辨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FA8

← 辧
[U+8FA7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

辩 →
[U+8FA9]

Translingual

Japanese	弁
Simplified	辨
Traditional	辨

Han character

辨 (radical 160, 辛+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜十戈中十 (YJILJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛⿰丿丿辛(GJK) or ⿲辛⿰丶丿辛(HT) or ⿲辛⿰丨丿辛(V))

Derived characters

𪭀

References

KangXi: page 1251, character 20
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38657
Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4041, character 6
Unihan data for U+8FA8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		辨

Glyph origin

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

From 辧, a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *breːns, *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phien
Min Bei (KCR): bìng
Min Dong (BUC): biêng
Min Nan (POJ): piǎn / piān
Wu (Wiktionary): bi (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: biàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
  - Wade–Giles: pien⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
  - IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: bin⁶
  - Yale: bihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phien
  - Hakka Romanization System: pien
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pian⁴
  - IPA: /pʰi̯en⁵⁵/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bìng
  - IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁴²/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: biêng
  - IPA ^(key): /piɛŋ²⁴²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piǎn
  - Tâi-lô: piǎn
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
  - Tâi-lô: piān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pien
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /piɛn³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: bi (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /b̻i²³/

Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 辨
Mandarin	Beijing	/pian⁵¹/
	Harbin	/pian⁵³/
	Tianjin	/pian⁵³/
	Jinan	/piã²¹/
	Qingdao	/piã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/pian³¹²/
	Xi'an	/piã⁴⁴/
	Xining	/piã²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/pian¹³/
	Lanzhou	/piɛ̃n¹³/
	Ürümqi	/pian²¹³/
	Wuhan	/piɛn³⁵/
	Chengdu	/pian¹³/
	Guiyang	/pian²¹³/
	Kunming	/piɛ̃²¹²/
	Nanjing	/pien⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/piĩ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pie⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/pie̞³⁵/
	Hohhot	/pie⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/bi²³/
	Suzhou	/biɪ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/biẽ̞¹³/
	Wenzhou	/bi³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/pʰe²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/piɛ²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/piẽ⁵⁵/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/piẽ⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/pʰiɛn²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰien⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/pʰien⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pin²²/
	Nanning	/pin²²/
	Hong Kong	/pin²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pian²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/piɛŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/piŋ⁴²/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/piaŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ʔbin³³/

Middle Chinese: /bˠiᴇn^X/, /bˠɛn^H/▼

Rime
Character	辨	辨
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III	II
Fanqie	符蹇切	蒲莧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠiᴇn^X/	/bˠɛn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚiɛn^X/	/bᵚæn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/biæn^X/	/bæn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bian^X/	/bəɨn^H/
Li Rong	/bjɛn^X/	/bɛn^H/
Wang Li	/bĭɛn^X/	/bæn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛn^X/	/bʱăn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn	bàn

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]renʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*breːns/, /*brenʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjen^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]renʔ/
English	distinguish
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	辨	辨
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	783	785
Phonetic component	辡	辡
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	瓣	辯
Old Chinese	/*breːns/	/*brenʔ/

Definitions

辨

to distinguish; to discriminate

Compounds

不辨菽麥／不辨菽麦 (bùbiàn shūmài)
以盲辨色
以聾辨聲／以聋辨声
分辨 (fēnbiàn)
分辨是非
口才辨給／口才辨给
思辨 (sībiàn)
慎思明辨
手寫辨似／手写辨似
折辨
指紋辨識／指纹辨识
明辨 (míngbiàn)
明辨是非
易圖明辨／易图明辨
有口難辨／有口难辨
未辨東西／未辨东西
歷歷可辨／历历可辨

真偽莫辨／真伪莫辨
眼辨
自動辨識／自动辨识
莫辨楮葉／莫辨楮叶
菽麥不辨／菽麦不辨
見貌辨色／见貌辨色
論辨／论辨
辨別／辨别 (biànbié)
辨味
辨復／辨复
辨志
辨惑
辨折
辨敏
辨明 (biànmíng)
辨本
辨析 (biànxī)

辨正
辨白
辨章
辨給／辨给
辨色
辨處／辨处
辨裁
辨覈
辨認／辨认 (biànrèn, “to distinguish, to discriminate”)
辨論／辨论
辨證／辨证 (biànzhèng)
辨識／辨识 (biànshí)
辨駁／辨驳
鑒毛辨色／鉴毛辨色
鑒貌辨色／鉴貌辨色
隸辨／隶辨
雌雄莫辨

Japanese

Shinjitai	弁
Kyūjitai	辨

Kanji

辨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

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Readings

Go-on: べん (ben)
Kan-on: へん (hen)
Kun: わける (wakeru, 辨ける); わきまえる (wakimaeru, 辨える)

Compounds

辨官
辨財天

Usage notes

In Japanese shinjitai, 辨, 瓣, 辯 has been simplified to one character, 弁.

Korean

Hanja

辨 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

distinguish

Vietnamese

Han character

辨 (biện, bẹn)

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