辮

See also: 辫

辮 U+8FAE, 辮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FAE ← 辭 [U+8FAD] CJK Unified Ideographs 辯 → [U+8FAF]

Translingual

Han character

辮 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜十女火十 (YJVFJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛糹辛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1252, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27991
• Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4044, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8FAE

Chinese

trad.		辮
simp.		辫
2nd round simp.		弁

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

Etymology

Exopassive of 編 (OC *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): piǎn / piān / pīⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bin¹ / bin⁶

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• 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/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biànr
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biànr
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: byànr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biall
    • Palladius: бяньр (bjanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piǎn
    • Tâi-lô: piǎn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
    • Tâi-lô: piān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: pīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pĩ³³/

Note:

• piǎn/piān - literary;
• pīⁿ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: bin¹ / bin⁶
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: piⁿ / pĭⁿ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pĩ³³/, /pĩ³⁵/

Note:

• bin1 - "plait";
• bin6 - verb ("to weave").

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• Middle Chinese: benX

Rime
Character	辮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	薄泫切
Baxter	benX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/benX/
Pan Wuyun	/benX/
Shao Rongfen	/bɛnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɛnX/
Li Rong	/benX/
Wang Li	/bienX/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱienX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-pˤe[r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ benX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-pˁe[r]ʔ/
English	braid (v., n.) (Shuōwén)
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	辮
Reading #	1/1
No.	788
Phonetic component	辡
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	辮
Old Chinese	/*beːnʔ/

Definitions

辮

1. braid; plait
2. braid-like object

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 辮子 (“queue; plaits; pigtail”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		辮子
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	辮子
	Harbin	辮子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	辮子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	辮子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	辮子
	Wanrong	辮子, 頭辮子
	Xi'an	帽蓋子, 辮子
	Xining	辮子, 辮辮
	Xuzhou	辮子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	辮子
	Ürümqi	辮子
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	辮子
	Guiyang	辮子
	Liuzhou	辮子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	辮子
	Yangzhou	辮子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	辮
	Hong Kong	辮
Gan	Nanchang	辮子
	Lichuan	辮子
	Pingxiang	辮子
Hakka	Meixian	毛辮仔
	Yudu	辮子
Jin	Taiyuan	辮子
	Xinzhou	辮子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	辮辮
Southern Min	Xiamen	頭鬃尾, 髻仔
	Quanzhou	髻尾, 髻仔尾, 髻仔
	Yongchun	髻囝尾
	Zhangzhou	頭鬃尾, 頭鬃尾仔, 頭鬃仔尾
	Zhao'an	鬃仔
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	頭鬃尾仔, 頭鬃尾
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	毛尾仔
	Changhua (Yongjing)	囟鬃仔
	Tainan (Anping)	毛尾仔
	Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng)	頭毛尾仔
	Penghu (Xiyu)	鬃尾仔
	Shantou	辮
	Jieyang	辮
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	辮子
Wu	Shanghai	辮子
	Shanghai (Chongming)	辮子
	Suzhou	辮子
	Danyang	辮子
	Hangzhou	辮兒
	Ningbo	辮子
	Wenzhou	辮兒
	Jinhua	辮兒
Xiang	Changsha	辮韃子
	Loudi	辮子

Compounds

• 小辮兒／小辫儿
• 小辮子／小辫子 (xiǎobiànzi)
• 打辮子／打辫子
• 抓辮子／抓辫子 (zhuābiànzi)
• 揪辮子／揪辫子
• 曲辮子／曲辫子
• 梳辮子／梳辫子 (shū biànzi)
• 王八辮兒／王八辫儿
• 盤辮子／盘辫子 (pán biànzi)
• 翹辮子／翘辫子 (qiào biànzi)
• 蒜辮子／蒜辫子
• 解辮／解辫
• 蹺辮子／跷辫子
• 辮子／辫子 (biànzi)
• 辮穗頭／辫穗头
• 辮髮／辫发
• 髫辮／髫辫
• 髮辮／发辫 (fàbiàn)

 

Japanese

Kanji

辮

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: あむ (amu, 辮む)

Korean

Hanja

辮 (eum 변 (byeon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

辮: Hán Nôm readings: biện, bện

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