扁

See also: 碥
扁 U+6241, 扁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6241
← 所
[U+6240] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 扂 →
[U+6242]

Translingual
Japanese 扁
Simplified 扁
Traditional 扁

Han character

扁 (radical 63, 戶+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸月廿 (HSBT) or 戈尸月廿 (ISBT) or X戈尸月廿 (XISBT), four-corner 30227, composition ⿸戶冊 or ⿸户冊 or ⿸戸冊)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 415, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11724
  • Dae Jaweon: page 760, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2261, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6241

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 扁

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (扁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
斒 *preːn, *praːn
鯿 *praːn, *pen
編 *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
揙 *pen
褊 *penʔ
篇 *pʰen
偏 *pʰen, *pʰens
翩 *pʰen
媥 *pʰen
扁 *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ
萹 *pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
騗 *pʰens
騙 *pʰens
諞 *ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ
楄 *ben, *beːn
蝙 *peːn
甂 *peːn
猵 *peːn, *binʔ
牑 *peːn
蹁 *peːn, *beːn
匾 *peːnʔ
碥 *peːnʔ
惼 *peːnʔ
糄 *peːnʔ
徧 *peːns
遍 *peːns
頨 *peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan
艑 *beːnʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 戶 (“door”) + 冊 (“bamboo tablets”) – to inscribe on the door.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1
Note:
  • bēng - vernacular;
  • biēng - literary.
Note:
  • pián - literary;
  • píⁿ/pín/pún - vernacular.
Rime
Character 扁 扁 扁
Reading # 2/4 4/4 3/4
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 並 (3) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 仙 (77) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) IV III IV
Fanqie 方典切 符善切 薄泫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /penX/ /biᴇnX/ /benX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /penX/ /biɛnX/ /benX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pɛnX/ /bjænX/ /bɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pɛnX/ /bianX/ /bɛnX/
Li
Rong		 /penX/ /biɛnX/ /benX/
Wang
Li		 /pienX/ /bĭɛnX/ /bienX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pienX/ /bʱi̯ɛnX/ /bʱienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 biǎn biàn biàn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 扁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 biǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ penX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˁe[r]ʔ/
English flat and thin

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 扁 扁 扁
Reading # 3/4 2/4 4/4
No. 732 724 744
Phonetic
component		 扁 扁 扁
Rime
group		 元 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 編 楩 辮
Old
Chinese		 /*peːnʔ/ /*benʔ/ /*beːnʔ/
Definitions

扁

  1. flat and thin (like a pancake)
    踩扁  ―  cǎibiǎn  ―  to trample flat
  2. to inscribe on the door
  3. to curl one's lips
  4. to underestimate; to underrate
  5. (dialectal) to beat; to give someone a good beating
  6. (dialectal) to hide in the waist
  7. Original form of 匾 (biǎn, “horizontal inscribed board; tablet; signboard”).
  8. A surname​.
See also
  • 薄 (bó)
  • 平 (píng, “flat; smooth; level”)
Compounds
Derived terms from 扁

Pronunciation 2
Rime
Character 扁
Reading # 1/4
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 芳連切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰian/
Li
Rong		 /pʰiɛn/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 piān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 扁
Reading # 1/4
No. 715
Phonetic
component		 扁
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 篇
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰen/
Definitions

扁

  1. small; little; narrow
  2. Alternative form of 偏 (piān, “out-of-the-way; remote; one-sided”).
Compounds
Derived terms from 扁

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 扁 – see 萹 (“common knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare”).
(This character, 扁, is the second-round simplified form of 萹.)
Notes:

Etymology 3
For pronunciation and definitions of 扁 – see 藊 (“a kind of bean with flat pods”).
(This character, 扁, is the second-round simplified form of 藊.)
Notes:

Etymology 4
For pronunciation and definitions of 扁 – see 稨.
(This character, 扁, is the second-round simplified form of 稨.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji
扁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. flat (adjective)

Readings
  • Go-on: へん (hen)
  • Kan-on: へん (hen)
  • Kun: ひらたい (hiratai, 扁たい)

Korean

Hanja

扁 • (pyeon, byeon)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 편, 변 (revised: pyeon, byeon, McCune–Reischauer: p'yŏn, pyŏn, Yale: phyen, pyen)
    • Name (hangeul): 작을
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Vietnamese

Han character

扁 (biển, bẽn, bên, thiên)

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