# 諞

| 諞 | U+8ADE, &#35550; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8ADE |
| ← 諝 [U+8ADD] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 諟 → [U+8ADF] |

## Translingual
### Han character

諞 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹尸月 (YRHSB) or 卜口戈尸月 (YRISB), four-corner 0362$_7$, composition ⿰訁扁)
* brag, boast
* quibble

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1169, character 26
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35703
* Dae Jaweon: page 1635, character 15
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4002, character 6
* Unihan data for U+8ADE

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 斒 | *preːn, *praːn |
| 鯿 | *praːn, *pen |
| 編 | *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ |
| 揙 | *pen |
| 褊 | *penʔ |
| 篇 | *pʰen |
| 偏 | *pʰen, *pʰens |
| 翩 | *pʰen |
| 媥 | *pʰen |
| 扁 | *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ |
| 萹 | *pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ |
| 騗 | *pʰens |
| 騙 | *pʰens |
| 諞 | *ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ |
| 楄 | *ben, *beːn |
| 蝙 | *peːn |
| 甂 | *peːn |
| 猵 | *peːn, *binʔ |
| 牑 | *peːn |
| 蹁 | *peːn, *beːn |
| 匾 | *peːnʔ |
| 碥 | *peːnʔ |
| 惼 | *peːnʔ |
| 糄 | *peːnʔ |
| 徧 | *peːns |
| 遍 | *peːns |
| 頨 | *peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan |
| 艑 | *beːnʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ): semantic 言 + phonetic 扁 (OC *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pián, piǎn (pian$^2$, pian$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢˊ, ㄆㄧㄢˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pin$^5$ / pin$^4$
* Eastern Min (BUC): piĕng
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pián
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: pián
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: pián
*** Wade–Giles: pʻien$^2$
*** Yale: pyán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyan
*** Palladius: пянь (pjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: piǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: piǎn
*** Wade–Giles: pʻien$^3$
*** Yale: pyǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pean
*** Palladius: пянь (pjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pin$^5$ / pin$^4$
*** Yale: píhn / pìhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pin$^5$ / pin$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pin$^5$ / pin$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰiːn¹³/, /pʰiːn²¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: piĕng
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰieŋ⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pián
*** Tâi-lô: pián
*** Phofsit Daibuun: piern
*** IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /piɛn⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: bjien, bjenX, bjienX
Rime :
| Character | 諞 | 諞 | 諞 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 並 (3) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (77) | 仙 (79) | 仙 (77) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III | III |
| Fanqie | 房連切 | 符蹇切 | 符善切 |
| Baxter | bjien | bjenX | bjienX |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /biᴇn/ | /bˠiᴇn$^X$/ | /biᴇn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /biɛn/ | /bᵚiɛn$^X$/ | /biɛn$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bjæn/ | /biæn$^X$/ | /bjæn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bian/ | /bian$^X$/ | /bian$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /biɛn/ | /bjɛn$^X$/ | /biɛn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭɛn/ | /bĭɛn$^X$/ | /bĭɛn$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱi̯ɛn/ | /bʱi̯ɛn$^X$/ | /bʱi̯ɛn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | pián | biàn | biàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | pin$^4$ | bin$^6$ | bin$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m-pʰ]e[r]ʔ/, /*[m-pʰ]e[r]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ben/, /*brenʔ/, /*benʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 諞 | 諞 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | biàn | pián |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bjien$^X$ › | ‹ bjien › |
| Old Chinese | /*[m-pʰ]e[r]ʔ/ | /*[m-pʰ]e[r]/ |
| English | insincere words | insincere words |
| 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 | 諞 | 諞 | 諞 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 720 | 722 | 723 |
| Phonetic component | 扁 | 扁 | 扁 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 便 | 辯 | 楩 |
| Old Chinese | /*ben/ | /*brenʔ/ | /*benʔ/ |

### Definitions

諞
* (of speech) sweet but insincere (usually flattering)
* to brag; to boast

### References

* “諞”, 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

* Go-on: べん (ben)
* Kan-on: へん (hen)
* Kun: へつらう (hetsurau, 諞う)

## Korean
### Hanja

諞 • (pyeon) (hangeul 편, revised pyeon, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

諞: Hán Việt readings: biền
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### References

* ↑ Trần (2004).