# 卞

| 卞 | U+535E, &#21342; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-535E |
| ← 卝 [U+535D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 卟 → [U+535F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

卞 (Kangxi radical 25, 卜+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜卜 (YY), four-corner 0023$_0$, composition ⿱亠卜)

#### Derived characters

* 𮗾

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 157, character 28
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2778
* Dae Jaweon: page 361, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 92, character 3
* Unihan data for U+535E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 汴 | *brons |
| 卞 | *brons |
| 忭 | *brons |
| 抃 | *brons |
| 犿 | *blon, *qʰloːn |
| 笇 | *smoːns |
| 飰 | *bons |
Variant of 弁 (biàn).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): biàn (bian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bin$^6$
* 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/
* 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: bjenH
Rime :
| Character | 卞 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (79) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 皮變切 |
| Baxter | bjenH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bˠiᴇn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bᵚiɛn$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /biæn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bian$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /bjɛn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭɛn$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱi̯ɛn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | biàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bin$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ro[n]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*brons/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 卞 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | biàn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bjen$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b]ro[n]-s/ |
| English | law |
| 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 | 卞 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 748 |
| Phonetic component | 卞 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 卞 |
| Old Chinese | /*brons/ |
| Notes | 弁俗變 |

#### Definitions

卞
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) law
* impatient; irritable; impetuous; in a hurry
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to wrestle with bare hands
* (～縣) (historical) Bian County (a county in modern-day Shandong, China)
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 卞急 (biànjí)
* 卞氏龍 / 卞氏龙

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 卞 – see 鞭 (“whip; to whip; to flog; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 鞭).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* law
* rule
* rash
* hasty

#### Readings

* Go-on: べん (ben)
* Kan-on: へん (hen)
* On: はん (han)
* Kun: のり (nori)

## Korean
### Hanja

卞 (eum 변 (byeon))
* to be impatient, in a hurry
* excitable

## Vietnamese
### Han character

卞: Hán Nôm readings: biện, bèn
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