Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 辨

Modern (Beijing) reading: biàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: b(h)rēns

Classic Old Chinese: b(h)rēnh

Western Han Chinese: b(h)rjānh

Eastern Han Chinese: b(h)riānh

Early Postclassic Chinese: b(h)iẹ̄̀n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: b(h)iẹ̄̀n

Late Postclassic Chinese: b(h)iẹ̄̀n

Middle Chinese: bạ̈̀n

English meaning : the bed frame

Russian meaning[s]: 1) ясно различать; объяснять; определять; 2) спорить; рассуждать, вм. 辯

Comments: In Mand. usually read biàn, on analogy with 辯 etc.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 160

Four-angle index: 2420

Karlgren code: 0219 b-d

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *brēɫ

Meaning: divide, separate

Chinese: 辨 *b_renʔ, *b_rēns divide, distinguish.

Tibetan: ãphral (p. phral, f. dbral, i. phrol) to separate, to part, ãbral (p. bral, i. brol) be separated, parted from.

Comments: Kham pǝ̀l to chop wood, to butcher an animal. Cf. also Lush. ṭhīl ( < *p(h)rīl ?) be separated from one another; phel to split, cut in halves. Coblin 65.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 2211

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 辨

MC description : 山開三上獼並

ZIHUI: 6587 1775

Beijing: pian 3

Jinan: piã 3

Xi'an: piã 3

Taiyuan: piɛ 3

Hankou: pian 3

Chengdu: pian 3

Yangzhou: pî̃ 3

Suzhou: bî 32

Wenzhou: bi 22

Changsha: piẽ 31

Shuangfeng: bî̃ 32

Nanchang: phiɛn 32

Meixian: phiɛn 3

Guangzhou: pin 32

Xiamen: pian 32

Chaozhou: pieŋ 22

Fuzhou: pieŋ 32

Shanghai: pî 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: pien 3

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