# 辮

| 辮 | U+8FAE, &#36782; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FAE |
| ← 辭 [U+8FAD] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 辯 → [U+8FAF] |

## Translingual
### Han character

辮 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜十女火十 (YJVFJ), four-corner 0044$_1$, composition ⿲辛糹辛)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1252, character 13
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27991
* Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4044, character 6
* Unihan data for U+8FAE

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 辮
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 辬 | *praːn |
| 瓣 | *breːns |
| 辦 | *breːns |
| 辨 | *breːns, *brenʔ |
| 辡 | *prenʔ, *brenʔ |
| 辯 | *brenʔ |
| 辮 | *beːnʔ |

### Etymology

Exopassive of 編 (OC *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): biàn (bian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): bin$^1$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): bin$^4$ / bin$^{4*}$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): piǎn / piān / pīⁿ
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bin$^1$ / bin$^6$
* 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/
** (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: biànr
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋㄦ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: biànr
*** Wade–Giles: pien$^4$-ʼrh
*** Yale: byànr
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biall
*** Palladius: бяньр (bjanʹr)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi̯ɑɻ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bin$^1$
*** Yale: bīn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bin$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bin$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /piːn⁵⁵/
** (Taishanese, Taicheng)
*** Wiktionary: bin$^4$ / bin$^{4*}$
*** Sinological IPA : /pin²¹/, /pin²¹⁻²¹⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piǎn
*** Tâi-lô: piǎn
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn²²/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
*** Tâi-lô: piān
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pien
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ
*** Tâi-lô: pīnn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pvi
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ²²/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pĩ³³/
* piǎn/piān - literary;
* pīⁿ - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: benX
Rime :
| Character | 辮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 薄泫切 |
| Baxter | benX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ben$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ben$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bɛn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bɛn$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ben$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /bien$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱien$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | biàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bin$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-pˤe[r]ʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*beːnʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 辮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | biàn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ben$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*m-pˁe[r]ʔ/ |
| English | braid (v., n.) (Shuōwén) |
| 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 | 辮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 788 |
| Phonetic component | 辡 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 辮 |
| Old Chinese | /*beːnʔ/ |

### Definitions

辮
* braid; plait
* braid-like object

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 辮子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 辮子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 辮子 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 辮子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 辮子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 辮子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 辮子, 頭辮子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 帽蓋子, 辮子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 辮子, 辮辮 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 辮子 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 辮子 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 辮子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 辮子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 辮子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 辮子 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 辮子 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 辮子 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 辮 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 辮 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 辮子 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 辮子 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 辮子 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 毛辮仔 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 辮子 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 辮子 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 辮子 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 辮辮 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 頭鬃尾, 髻仔 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 髻尾, 髻仔尾, 髻仔 |
| Southern Min | Yongchun | 髻囝尾 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 頭鬃尾, 頭鬃尾仔, 頭鬃仔尾 |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an | 鬃仔 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Tamsui) | 頭鬃尾仔, 頭鬃尾 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung (Cijin) | 毛尾仔 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Yongjing) | 囟鬃仔 |
| Southern Min | Tainan (Anping) | 毛尾仔 |
| Southern Min | Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng) | 頭毛尾仔 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Xiyu) | 鬃尾仔 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 辮 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 辮 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 辮子 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 辮子 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 辮子 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 辮子 |
| Wu | Danyang | 辮子 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 辮兒 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 辮子 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 辮兒 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 辮兒 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 辮韃子 |
| Xiang | Loudi | 辮子 |

### Compounds

* 小辮兒 / 小辫儿
* 小辮子 / 小辫子 (xiǎobiànzi)
* 打辮子 / 打辫子
* 抓辮子 / 抓辫子 (zhuābiànzi)
* 揪辮子 / 揪辫子
* 曲辮子 / 曲辫子
* 梳辮子 / 梳辫子 (shū biànzi)
* 王八辮兒 / 王八辫儿
* 盤辮子 / 盘辫子 (pán biànzi)
* 翹辮子 / 翘辫子 (qiào biànzi)
* 蒜辮子 / 蒜辫子
* 解辮 / 解辫
* 蹺辮子 / 跷辫子
* 辮子 / 辫子 (biànzi)
* 辮穗頭 / 辫穗头
* 辮髮 / 辫发
* 髫辮 / 髫辫
* 髮辮 / 发辫 (fàbiàn)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: べん (ben)
* Kan-on: へん (hen)
* Kun: あむ (amu, 辮む)

## Korean
### Hanja

辮 (eum 변 (byeon))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

辮: Hán Nôm readings: biện, bện
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