# 秉

| 秉 | U+79C9, &#31177; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79C9 |
| ← 秈 [U+79C8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 秊 → [U+79CA] |

## Translingual
### Han character

秉 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中 (HDL) or 難竹木中 (XHDL), four-corner 2090$_7$, composition ⿱丿𣏃 or ⿻禾⺕)

#### Derived characters

* 𠶏, 㨀, 𣶸, 棅, 𤊔, 𤦋, 𥪕, 𨧺, 𥡝, 𦱮

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 849, character 21
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24932
* Dae Jaweon: page 1272, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2592, character 5
* Unihan data for U+79C9

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 秉 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 秉 | *praŋʔ |
| 棅 | *praŋs |
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 禾 (“plant”) + 又 (“hand”) — a hand holding a plant by the stalk. Compare: 兼, a hand holding two plants.

### Etymology

Cognate with 柄 (OC *praŋʔ, *praŋs, “a handle”), which is exopassive of 秉 (OC *praŋʔ, “to grasp”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bǐng (bing$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bing$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): bīng
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): péng
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bêng$^2$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$pin
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bǐng
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bǐng
*** Wade–Giles: ping$^3$
*** Yale: bǐng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biing
*** Palladius: бин (bin)
*** Sinological IPA : /piŋ²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bing$^2$
*** Yale: bíng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bing$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bing$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɪŋ³⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: bīng
*** Sinological IPA : /piŋ³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: péng
*** Tâi-lô: píng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: peang
*** IPA (Xiamen): /piɪŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /piɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /piɪŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ⁴¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: bêng$^2$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: péng
*** Sinological IPA : /peŋ⁵²/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^5$pin
*** MiniDict: pin$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^2$pin
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pin³⁴/
* Middle Chinese: pjaengX
Rime :
| Character | 秉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 庚 (111) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 兵永切 |
| Baxter | pjaengX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pˠiæŋ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pᵚiaŋ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /piaŋ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /piajŋ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /piɐŋ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /pĭɐŋ$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /pi̯ɐŋ$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bǐng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bing$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*praŋʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*praŋʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 秉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bǐng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pjæng$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*praŋʔ/ |
| English | grasp |
| 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 | 秉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 899 |
| Phonetic component | 秉 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 丙 |
| Old Chinese | /*praŋʔ/ |

### Definitions

秉
* a handful of crops
* to grasp; to hold
* to preside over
* to persist in; to persevere

### Compounds

* 一秉至公
* 伊秉綬／伊秉绶
* 內秉堅孤／内秉坚孤
* 公秉
* 披秉
* 當風秉燭／当风秉烛
* 秉公 (bǐnggōng)
* 秉公無私／秉公无私
* 秉國／秉国 (bǐngguó)
* 秉彝
* 秉心
* 秉性 (bǐngxìng)
* 秉承 (bǐngchéng)
* 秉持 (bǐngchí)
* 秉文
* 秉正 (bǐngzhèng)
* 秉燭／秉烛 (bǐngzhú)
* 秉燭夜遊／秉烛夜游
* 秉燭達旦／秉烛达旦
* 秉笏披袍
* 秉筆／秉笔 (bǐngbǐ)
* 秉筆直書／秉笔直书 (bǐngbǐzhíshū)
* 秉臺衡／秉台衡
* 秉要執本／秉要执本
* 秉賦／秉赋 (bǐngfù)
* 秉鈞／秉钧
* 秉鉞／秉钺
* 秉鐸／秉铎
* 風中秉燭／风中秉烛

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* take
* cherish
* sheaf
* unit of volume (10 koku; 1,800 l)

#### Readings

* Go-on: ひょう (hyō)
* Kan-on: へい (hei)
* Kun: とる (toru)

## Korean
### Hanja

秉 (eum 병 (byeong))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

秉: Hán Nôm readings: bỉnh, bảnh
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