汴

汴 U+6C74, 汴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C74 ← 汳 [U+6C73] CJK Unified Ideographs 汵 → [U+6C75]

Translingual

Han character

汴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水卜卜 (EYY), four-corner 3013₀, composition ⿰氵卞)

1. name of a river in Henan province
2. Henan province

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 608, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17165
• Dae Jaweon: page 1001, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1571, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C74

Chinese

simp. and trad.		汴
alternative forms		汳

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶

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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)
    • Jyutping: bin⁶
    • Yale: bihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: bjenH

Rime
Character	汴
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*brons/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	汴
Reading #	1/1
No.	747
Phonetic component	卞
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	卞
Old Chinese	/*brons/
Notes	漢書作卞

Definitions

汴

1. name of an ancient river in Henan province
2. name of a city founded on the site of Kaifeng in 781; later the capital of the Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou dynasties

Compounds

• 汴京 (Biànjīng)
• 汴堤
• 汴州
• 汴梁 (Biànliáng)
• 汴水
• 汴水之戰 / 汴水之战
• 汴河 (Biànhé)

Japanese

Kanji

汴

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へん (hen)、べん (ben)

Korean

Hanja

汴 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

汴: Hán Nôm readings: biển, biện

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