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Stroke order
(Japan)
Japanese 弁 弁 弁
Simplified 辩 辨 瓣
Traditional 辯 辨 瓣

弁 (Kangxi radical 55, 廾+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿 (IT) or 難戈廿 (XIT), four-corner 23440, composition ⿱厶廾)

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 353, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9588
  • Dae Jaweon: page 668, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 514, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5F01
simp. and trad.
 弁
alternative forms 覍
Old Chinese
鴘 *pronʔ, *pʰronʔ
弁 *brons
拚 *pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns
閞 *brons, *bons
昪 *brons
匥 *brons
笲 *brons, *bon, *bonʔ
軬 *bonʔ
畚 *puːnʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 厶 + 廾: hands (廾) placing a hat (厶) on someone’s head.

“cap; to wear a cap; low-ranking military officer; to place before or above”
Possibly related to 冕 (OC *mronʔ, “crown”) (Wang, 1982).
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 弁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		biàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bjenH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.[b]ro[n]-s/
English cap

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 弁
Reading # 1/1
No. 757
Phonetic
component 		弁
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		卞
Old
Chinese 		/*brons/

弁

  1. conical cap worn during the Zhou dynasty
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of a man) to wear a cap (usually to indicate adulthood)
  3. (historical) low-ranking military officer
  4. to place before or above
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) quick; rushed
  6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to panic; to shudder
  7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 卞 (biàn, “to wrestle with bare hands”)
  8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 卞 (Biàn, “a county in Shandong”)
  9. a surname

弁

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) happy
For pronunciation and definitions of 弁 – see 辯 (“to debate; to argue; to discuss”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 辯).
Notes:

弁

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. hat

In Japan, this character is shinjitai of 3 characters, 辨, 瓣, 辯. Furthermore, in modern usage, this character is used to replace 辮 and 辦.

弁

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 辨)

  1. to distinguish

弁

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 瓣)

  1. petal
  2. valve

弁

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 辯)

  1. speech

弁

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 辮)

  1. Extended shinjitai form of 辮

弁

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 辦)

  1. Extended shinjitai form of 辦
Kanji in this term
弁
べん
Grade: 5
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
辨 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 辨 (MC bjenX|beanH).

弁(べん) • (ben) 

  1. discrimination
Kanji in this term
弁
べん
Grade: 5
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
瓣 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 瓣 (MC beanH).

弁(べん) • (ben) 

  1. petal
  2. valve
Kanji in this term
弁
べん
Grade: 5
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
辯 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 辯 (MC bjenX).

弁(べん) • (-ben) 

  1. dialect
    彼(かの)女(じょ)はコテコテの関(かん)西(さい)弁(べん)を話(はな)す。
    Kanojo wa kotekote no Kansaiben o hanasu.
    She speaks Kansai dialect with a strong accent.

弁 • (byeon, ban) (hangeul 변, 반, revised byeon, ban, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, pan, Yale pyen, pan)

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弁: Hán Nôm readings: biền, biện

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