# 閞

| 閞 | U+959E, &#38302; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-959E |
| ← 閝 [U+959D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 閟 → [U+959F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

閞 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日弓戈廿 (ANIT), four-corner 7744$_2$, composition ⿵門弁)

#### Derived characters

* 𡢸, 𥴥

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1333, character 31
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41282
* Dae Jaweon: page 1840, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4294, character 1
* Unihan data for U+959E

## Chinese
### Etymology 1
#### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鴘 | *pronʔ, *pʰronʔ |
| 弁 | *brons |
| 拚 | *pʰaːn, *brons, *pʰaːn, *puns |
| 閞 | *brons, *bons |
| 昪 | *brons |
| 匥 | *brons |
| 笲 | *brons, *bon, *bonʔ |
| 軬 | *bonʔ |
| 畚 | *puːnʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *brons, *bons) : semantic 門 + phonetic 弁 (OC *brons).

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): biàn (bian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bin$^6$ / faan$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: biàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: biàn
*** Wade–Giles: pien$^4$
*** Yale: byàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
*** Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bin$^6$ / faan$^6$
*** Yale: bihn / faahn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bin$^6$ / faan$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bin$^6$ / fan$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /piːn²²/, /faːn²²/
* Middle Chinese: bjonH, bjenH
Rime :
| Character | 閞 | 閞 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 元 (66) | 仙 (79) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 符万切 | 皮變切 |
| Baxter | bjonH | bjenH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bʉɐn$^H$/ | /bˠiᴇn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bʷiɐn$^H$/ | /bᵚiɛn$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /biuɐn$^H$/ | /biæn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /buan$^H$/ | /bian$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /biuɐn$^H$/ | /bjɛn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭwɐn$^H$/ | /bĭɛn$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱi̯wɐn$^H$/ | /bʱi̯ɛn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fàn | biàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | faan$^6$ | bin$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*brons/, /*bons/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 閞 | 閞 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 759 | 767 |
| Phonetic component | 弁 | 弁 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 卞 | 飯 |
| Old Chinese | /*brons/ | /*bons/ |

#### Definitions

閞
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### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 閞 – see 關 (“door bolt; to close; to shut; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 關).

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05490
* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04398-009
* “閞”, 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

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): へん (hen)、べん (ben)、はん (han)、ぼん (bon)
* Kun: はしらのますがた (hashiranomasugata)