# 釆

| 釆 | U+91C6, &#37318; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91C6 |
| ← 釅 [U+91C5] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 采 → [U+91C7] |
| ⾤ | U+2FA4, &#12196; KANGXI RADICAL DISTINGUISH |
| ← ⾣ [U+2FA3] | Kangxi Radicals | ⾥ → [U+2FA5] |

## Translingual
### Han character

釆 (Kangxi radical 165, 釆+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹火木 (HFD) or 難竹火木 (XHFD), four-corner 2090$_9$, composition ⿱丿米 or ⿻禾丷)
* Kangxi radical #165, ⾤.
* Shuowen Jiezi radical №17

#### Derived characters

* Appendix:Chinese radical/釆
* 𤕽, 𭹏, 𠃆, 𩗞, 𫾶, 𣪖, 䧽, 𠀭, 𠳅, 𢍏, 悉, 番, 𠢏, 䎹, 𮖈, 𨁢, 𣗷, 宷, 𥦓
* 奧, 粵, 敹, 竊

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1290, character 4
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40115
* Dae Jaweon: page 1790, character 8
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3898, character 1
* Unihan data for U+91C6

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 釆 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Pictogram (象形) . According to Shuowen Jiezi, it's an animal paw with spread toes, hence the character is linked to 蹯.
According to Zhang Shichao (張世超), it's the representation of a wooden plough (力) and some seeds to convey the concept of "disseminate, spread", hence the character is linked to 播.
Unrelated to the top component of 𢍏, used in 奧.

### Etymology

Exopassive of 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive 瓣 (OC *breːns, “what is 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).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): biàn (bian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bin$^6$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phien
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piān
* 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$^6$
*** Yale: bihn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bin$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bin$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /piːn²²/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phien
*** Hakka Romanization System: pien
*** Hagfa Pinyim: pian$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /pʰi̯en⁵⁵/
* 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/
* Middle Chinese: beanH
Rime :
| Character | 釆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 山 (73) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 蒲莧切 |
| Baxter | beanH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bˠɛn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bᵚæn$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bæn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bəɨn$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /bɛn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /bæn$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱăn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | baan$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤre[n]-s/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 釆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | biàn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bɛn$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b]ˁre[n]-s/ |
| English | discriminate |
| 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. ||

### Definitions

釆
* to distinguish; to discriminate

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* separate
* divide
* topped rice radical (no. 165)

#### Readings

* Go-on: べん (ben)
* Kan-on: はん (han)
* On: ばん (ban)、へん (hen)
* Kun: わかつ (wakatsu)、わかれる (wakareru)、ひずめ (hizume)

## Korean
### Hanja

釆 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)
* distinguish
* KangXi radical 165

## Vietnamese
### Han character

釆: Hán Nôm readings: biện, thái, trảy, trẩy
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