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Number: 2044
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 山開三平仙幫
ZIHUI: 4882 1769
Beijing: pian 11
Jinan: piã 11
Xi'an: piã 11
Taiyuan: piɛ 1
Hankou: pian 11
Chengdu: pian 11
Yangzhou: pî̃ 11
Suzhou: pî 11
Wenzhou: pi 11
Changsha: piẽ 11
Shuangfeng: phî̃ 11
Nanchang: piɛn 11
Meixian: phiɛn 11
Guangzhou: phin 11
Xiamen: phian 11
Chaozhou: pieŋ 11
Fuzhou: pieŋ 11
Shanghai: pî 1
Zhongyuan yinyun: pien 1
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Modern (Beijing) reading: biān
Preclassic Old Chinese: pēn
Classic Old Chinese: pēn
Western Han Chinese: pjān
Eastern Han Chinese: piān
Early Postclassic Chinese: piēn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: piēn
Late Postclassic Chinese: piēn
Middle Chinese: pien
English meaning : to plait; arrange, compile, record [LZ]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) плести, заплетать; сплетать; связывать; 2) формировать, комплектовать; организовывать; располагать в порядке; 3) составлять (книгу); издавать; издание; брошюровать; том; часть (сочинения); складывать (песню); 4) фабриковать, измышлять; 5) Бянь (фамилия)
Comments: Also read *pen, MC pjen id.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 120
Four-angle index: 3704
Karlgren code: 0246 e
Vietnamese reading: biên
Jianchuan Bai: pĩ4
Dali Bai: pi5
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ber
Meaning: plait, knit, fasten
Chinese: *pē̆n, pēnʔ plait, weave, 辮 *bēnʔ to plait.
Tibetan: ãbjar, ãbjor to stick to, adhere to, sbjor (p., f. sbjar) to affix, to attach, fasten.
Lushai: phiar to knit, plait, crochet.
Kiranti: *phèr
Comments: Bahing phyer sew. Ben. 46. Cf. PAN *piri 'plait, wrap'.
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *phèr (/*ʔp-)
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: sew
Sunwar: pher-ca
Tulung: phir-
Kaling: pher-nä (pheru)
Kulung: burma 'sew, stitch'; purma 'spin a thread into a cord'
Comments: Toba 95 *phVr-.
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Entry: burma
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vt-1 [1: bur-]
Meaning: sew, stitch
Nepali: siunu.
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