瓣

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 弁 (Japanese simplified form which also covers 辨 and 辯)

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 辡 + 瓜 (“melon”)

Han character

瓣 (radical 97 瓜+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹人十 (YJHOJ), four-corner 0044₁)

1. petal
2. segment
3. valve

References

• KangXi: page 747, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21425
• Dae Jaweon: page 1155, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4043, character 12
• Unihan data for U+74E3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

瓣 (Yale faan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

瓣

Readings

• On: べん (ben)
• Kun: はなびら (hanabira)

Compounds

• 安全瓣 (あんぜんべん)
• 花瓣
• 豆瓣醤

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Korean

Hanja

瓣 (hangeul 판, revised pan, McCune-Reischauer p'an, Yale phan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

瓣 (pinyin bàn (ban4), Wade-Giles pan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瓣 (biện, bẹ)