Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 辮

Modern (Beijing) reading: biàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: bēnʔ

Classic Old Chinese: bḗn

Western Han Chinese: bjā́n

Eastern Han Chinese: biā́n

Early Postclassic Chinese: biḗn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: biḗn

Late Postclassic Chinese: biḗn

Middle Chinese: bíen

English meaning : to plait, braid [Han]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) заплетать косу; коса; 2) галун, шнур

Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is biện. For *b cf. Xiamen pĩ⁶ (lit. pian⁶), Fuzhou pieŋ⁶. Cf. 編 *pē̆n, pēnʔ plait, weave.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 160

Four-angle index: 2427

Vietnamese reading: bện

Jianchuan Bai: -pĩ4

Dali Bai: -pi5

Bijiang Bai: -per2

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