蝙

蝙	U+8759, 蝙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8759

← 蝘
[U+8758]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蝚 →
[U+875A]

Translingual

Han character

蝙 (radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹尸月 (LIHSB) or 中戈戈尸月 (LIISB), four-corner 5312₇, composition ⿰虫扁)

References

KangXi: page 1089, character 16

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33271

Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 24

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2873, character 11

Unihan data for U+8759

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蝙

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biān (bian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bin¹, bin², pin¹
Min Nan (POJ): pian / pián

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: biān
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢ
  - Wade–Giles: pien¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bian
  - IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: bin¹, bin², pin¹
  - Yale: bīn, bín, pīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹, bin², pin¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bin¹, bin², pin¹
  - IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵/, /piːn³⁵/, /pʰiːn⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pian
  - Tâi-lô: pian
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piefn
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /piɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pián
  - Tâi-lô: pián
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piern
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /piɛn⁵³/

Note:

pian - literary;
pián - literary (Zhangzhou);
pián - vernacular (俗, Quanzhou, Taiwan, Xiamen).

Middle Chinese: /pen/▼

Rime
Character	蝙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	布玄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pen/
Pan Wuyun	/pen/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛn/
Li Rong	/pen/
Wang Li	/pien/
Bernard Karlgren	/pien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biān

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*peːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝙
Reading #	1/1
No.	725
Phonetic component	扁
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	邊
Old Chinese	/*peːn/

Definitions

蝙

Only used in 蝙蝠 (biānfú, “bat”).

Compounds

蝙蝠 (biānfú)

蝙蝠人

蝙蝠俠／蝙蝠侠 (Biānfúxiá)

References

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

Japanese

Kanji

蝙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

bat

Readings

Go-on: へん (hen)
Kan-on: へん (hen)
Kun: こうもり (kōmori, 蝙)^{←かうもり (kaumori, historical)}

Compounds

蝙蝠 (こうもり) (kōmori), 蝙蝠 (かわほり) (kawahori), 蝙蝠 (へんぷく) (henpuku): bat (small flying mammal of order Chiroptera)

Korean

Hanja

蝙 • (pyeon) (hangeul 편, revised pyeon, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)

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