辯

See also: 辩
辯 U+8FAF, 辯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FAF
← 辮
[U+8FAE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 辰 →
[U+8FB0]

Translingual
Traditional 辯
Shinjitai 弁
Simplified 辩

Han character

辯 (radical 160, 辛+14, 21 strokes, cangjie input 卜十卜口十 (YJYRJ), four-corner 00441, composition ⿲辛言辛)

Derived characters
  • 𡅼, 𨐾, 䉸

References
  • KangXi: page 1252, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38677
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4045, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8FAF

Chinese
trad. 辯
simp. 辩
variant forms 辡

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 言 (“say”).

Etymology

Cognate with 辨 (OC *breːns, *brenʔ, “to distinguish”).

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 辯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 仙 (79)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 符蹇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠiᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bianX/
Li
Rong		 /bjɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /bĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 biàn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 辯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 biàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjenX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]renʔ/
English distinguish, dispute (v.)

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 辯
Reading # 1/1
No. 786
Phonetic
component		 辡
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 辯
Old
Chinese		 /*brenʔ/

Definitions

辯

  1. to debate; to argue; to discuss

Compounds
Derived terms from 辯

Japanese

Shinjitai

 弁

Kyūjitai

 辯

Kanji
辯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

Readings

Compounds
  • 関西辯 (かんさいべん) (kansaiben)
  • 能辯 (のうべん) (nōben)
  • 詭辯 (きべん) (kiben)
  • 辯才天 (べんざいてん) (benzaiten), 辨財天 (べんざいてん) (benzaiten)

Suffix

辯 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 弁, hiragana べん, rōmaji ben)

  1. dialect

Usage notes

In Japanese shinjitai, 辯, 辨, 瓣 has been simplified to one character, 弁.

Korean

Hanja

辯 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

辯 (biện)

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