卞

See also: 下

卞 U+535E, 卞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-535E ← 卝 [U+535D] CJK Unified Ideographs 卟 → [U+535F]

Translingual

Han character

卞 (Kangxi radical 25, 卜+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜卜 (YY), four-corner 0023₀, composition ⿱亠卜)

Derived characters

• 𮗾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 157, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2778
• Dae Jaweon: page 361, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 92, character 3
• Unihan data for U+535E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		卞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
汴	*brons
卞	*brons
忭	*brons
抃	*brons
犿	*blon, *qʰloːn
笇	*smoːns
飰	*bons

Variant of 弁 (biàn).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biàn
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴
    • Yale: byàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
    • Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: bin⁶
    • Yale: bihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
    • Tâi-lô: piān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɛn³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjenH

Rime
Character	卞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	皮變切
Baxter	bjenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/biænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bianH/
Li Rong	/bjɛnH/
Wang Li	/bĭɛnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ro[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*brons/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卞
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ro[n]-s/
English	law
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	卞
Reading #	1/1
No.	748
Phonetic component	卞
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	卞
Old Chinese	/*brons/
Notes	弁俗變

Definitions

卞

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) law
2. impatient; irritable; impetuous; in a hurry
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to wrestle with bare hands
4. (～縣) (historical) Bian County (a county in modern-day Shandong, China)
5. a surname

Compounds

• 卞急 (biànjí)
• 卞氏龍 / 卞氏龙

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 卞 – see 鞭 (“whip; to whip; to flog; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 鞭).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

卞

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. law
2. rule
3. rash
4. hasty

Readings

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• On: はん (han)
• Kun: のり (nori)

Korean

Hanja

卞 (eum 변 (byeon))

1. to be impatient, in a hurry
2. excitable

Vietnamese

Han character

卞: Hán Nôm readings: biện, bèn

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