辯

See also: 辩

辯	U+8FAF, 辯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FAF

← 辮
[U+8FAE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

辰 →
[U+8FB0]

Translingual

Traditional	辯
Shinjitai	弁
Simplified	辩

Han character

辯 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+14, 21 strokes, cangjie input 卜十卜口十 (YJYRJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛訁辛)

Derived characters

𡅼, 𨐾, 䉸

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1252, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38677
Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4045, character 1
Unihan data for U+8FAF

Chinese

trad.		辯
simp.		辩
2nd round simp.		弁
alternative forms		辡辨䛒𧦪𧦬辡辨䛒𧦪𧦬𮗿𧩵𰁏

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 言 (“say”). However, the phonetic component (which is the reduplication of the Kangxi radical of the knife to mark prisoners) perhaps symbolizes two prisoners accusing each other, hence "debating in an aggressive manner".

Etymology

Cognate with 辨 (OC *breːns, *brenʔ, “to distinguish”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶
Northern Min (KCR): bìng
Eastern Min (BUC): biêng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): piǎn / piān

(Teochew, Peng'im): biang⁶ / biêng⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biàn
  - Wade–Giles: pien⁴
  - Yale: byàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
  - Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bin⁶
  - Yale: bihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bìng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁴²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: biêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piɛŋ²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (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/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: biang⁶ / biêng⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: piăng / piĕng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piaŋ³⁵/, /pieŋ³⁵/

Note:

biang6 - Shantou;
biêng6 - Chaozhou.

Middle Chinese: bjenX

Rime
Character	辯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符蹇切
Baxter	bjenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠiᴇn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚiɛn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/biæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bian^X/
Li Rong	/bjɛn^X/
Wang Li	/bĭɛn^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin⁶

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

(Zhengzhang): /*brenʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjen^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]renʔ/
English	distinguish, dispute (v.)
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	辯
Reading #	1/1
No.	786
Phonetic component	辡
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	辯
Old Chinese	/*brenʔ/

Definitions

辯

to debate; to argue; to discuss
^† Alternative form of 辨 (“to distinguish; to differentiate”)
- 上天下澤，履，君子以辯上下，安民志。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  上天下泽，履，君子以辩上下，安民志。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: I Ching, 11^th – 8^th century BCE
  Shàng tiān xià zé, lǚ, jūnzǐ yǐ biàn shàngxià, ān mínzhì. [Pinyin]
  (The trigram representing) the sky above, and below it (that representing the waters of) a marsh, form Lu. The superior man, in accordance with this, discriminates between high and low, and gives settlement to the aims of the people.

Compounds

References

“辯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	弁
Kyūjitai	辯

Kanji

辯

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

Readings

Compounds

関西辯(かんさいべん) (Kansai-Ben)
能辯(のうべん) (nōben)
詭(き)辯(べん) (kiben)
辯才天(べんざいてん) (benzaiten), 辨財天(べんざいてん) (benzaiten)

Suffix

辯(べん) • (-ben)

dialect

Usage notes

In modern Japanese, 辯, 辨, and 瓣 have been simplified to one character, 弁.

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 辯 (MC bjenX).

Historical readings

Recorded as Middle Korean 뼌〯 (Yale: ppyěn) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
Recorded as Middle Korean 변〯 (pyěn) (Yale: pyěn) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pjɘ(ː)n]
Phonetic hangul: [변(ː)]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

辯

Wikisource

辯 (eumhun 말씀 변 (malsseum byeon))

hanja form^? of 변 (“debate; discuss”)

Compounds

웅변 (雄辯, ungbyeon)
답변 (答辯, dapbyeon)
궤변 (詭辯, gwebyeon)
변론 (辯論, byeollon)
대변 (代辯, daebyeon)
항변 (抗辯, hangbyeon)
변호 (辯護, byeonho)
변호사 (辯護士, byeonhosa)
대변인 (代辯人, daebyeonin)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

辯: Hán Nôm readings: biện

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