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Translingual

Han character

(radical 177 +9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿十人一大 (TJOMK), four-corner 41546)

  1. whip
  2. **** (non-human, as a food)[1][2]
  3. string of firecrackers

References

  1. “Word dictionary - 鞭 - MDBG English to Chinese dictionary”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Mdbg.net, accessed 2016-03-01
  2. “鞭 — с китайского на все языки”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Translate.academic.ru, accessed 2016-03-01
  • KangXi: page 1390, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42937
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1904, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4343, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+97AD

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (便) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pen
*pen
*pen, *ben
便 *ben, *bens
*ben, *peːnʔ
*ben, *benʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/piᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/piɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/pjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pian/
Li
Rong
/piɛn/
Wang
Li
/pĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
biān
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjien ›
Old
Chinese
/*pe[n]/
English whip (n.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 770
Phonetic
component
便
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pen/
Notes 便

Noun

  1. a whip
       biān   leather whip
  2. the **** of a male animal
       niúbiān   bull pizzle
  3. an ancient type of weapon, segmented and made of iron
    鋼鞭钢鞭
  4. a string of firecrackers
    鞭炮 (biānpào)

Compounds

  • 鐵鞭草铁鞭草 (tiěbiāncǎo)
  • 鐵馬鞭铁马鞭 (tiěmǎbiān)

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pyeon) (hangeul , revised pyeon, McCune-Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tiên, tiệm)

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