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瓣 U+74E3, 瓣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-74E3
← 瓢
[U+74E2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 瓤 →
[U+74E4]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

  • 弁 (Japanese simplified form which also covers 辨 and 辯)

Han character

瓣 (Kangxi radical 97, 瓜+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹人十 (YJHOJ), four-corner 00441, composition ⿲辛瓜辛)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 747, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21425
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1155, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4043, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+74E3
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (辡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *breːns): phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 瓜 (“melon”). However, the phonetic component (the reduplication of the knife to mark prisoners) perhaps symbolizes two prisoners accusing each other, which then leads to the concept of "discrimination, differentiation" and finally to the concept of "part, segment, what is differentiated", originally referred to melon seeds.

Etymology

"segment, section, piece"
Exopassive of 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive 釆 (“[to cause to be] divided”). These three thus may be related to either 班 (OC *praːn, “to distribute → to arrange, classify → class, group”) or Mizo pʰel (“to split, cut in halves”) (with medial *-r- dropped after labial initials according to Mizo phonotactics) (Schuessler, 2007).
"petal"
Either same etymon as "segment, section, piece"; or same etymon as *葩 (OC *pʰraː, “flower”); or related to 燔 (OC *ban, “to burn”), if so, semantically parallel to Tibetan མེ་ཏོག (me tog, “flower”), literally "fire-top".

Pronunciation

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Definitions

瓣

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) melon seeds
  2. petal
  3. segment; section; piece; clove (of garlic)
  4. (medicine) short for 瓣膜 (bànmó, “valve”)
    二尖瓣  ―  èrjiānbàn  ―  mitral valve; bicuspid valve
  5. Classifier for pieces and segments, such as those of (cut-up) fruits or petals. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  6. (Cantonese) Classifier for domains of activity.; field
    瓣瓣掂 [Cantonese]  ―  faan6 faan6 dim6 [Jyutping]  ―  great at everything; versatile

Compounds

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Japanese

Shinjitai

 弁

Kyūjitai

 瓣

Kanji

瓣

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

  1. flower petal
  2. valve

Readings

  • Go-on: べん (ben)
  • Kan-on: はん (han)
  • Kun: はなびら (hanabira, 瓣)

Compounds

Noun

瓣(べん) • (ben) 

  1. (anatomy) valve (membranous partition, flap, or fold, which allows flow in only one direction, e.g. a heart valve)
  2. valve (device that controls the flow of a fluid through a pipe)

Synonyms

Counter

瓣(べん) • (-ben) 

  1. flower petals

Usage notes

In Japanese shinjitai, 瓣, 辨, and 辯 have all been simplified to one character, 弁.

Korean

Hanja

瓣 (eum 판 (pan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

瓣: Hán Nôm readings: bẹ, biện

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