辨

辨 U+8FA8, 辨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FA8 ← 辧 [U+8FA7] CJK Unified Ideographs 辩 → [U+8FA9]

Japanese	弁
Simplified	辨
Traditional	辨

辨 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜十戈中十 (YJILJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛⿰丿丿辛(GJK) or ⿲辛⿰丶丿辛(HT) or ⿲辛⿰丨丿辛(V))

• 𪭀

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1251, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38657
• Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4041, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8FA8

From 辧, a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *breːns, *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”). However, the phonetic component (the reduplication of the knife to mark prisoners) perhaps symbolizes two prisoners accusing each other, hence two different versions, which then leads to the concept of "discriminate".

Cognate with 辯 (OC *brenʔ). 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “divide, distinguish, discriminate, dispute”) and its two exopassive derivatives 釆 (“Literally, “(to cause to be) divided” > discriminate, distinguish”) and 瓣 (OC *breːns, “Literally, “what is divided” > piece, section, segment”) belong to the same word-family, which may be related to either 班 (OC *praːn, “to distribute → to arrange, classify → class, group”) or Mizo pʰel (“to split, cut in halves”) (with medial *-r- dropped after labial initials according to Mizo phonotactics) (Schuessler, 2007).

trad.		辨
simp. #		辨
2nd round simp.		弁

辨

1. to distinguish; to discriminate

   • 慧士可與辨物，智士可與辨無方，聖人可與辨神明。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     慧士可与辨物，智士可与辨无方，圣人可与辨神明。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Shuoyuan, circa 1^st century BCE

     Huìshì kě yù biàn wù, zhìshì kě yù biàn wúfāng, shèngrén kě yù biàn shénmíng. [Pinyin]

     Intelligent men can participate in discussions of ordinary affairs; wise men can participate in discussions of an unlimited range of matters; and sages can participate in discussions of the most rarefied spiritual matters.

trad.		辨
simp. #		辨

辨

1. ^† to prepare; to equip
2. ^† to administer; to govern; to manage

Shinjitai	弁
Kyūjitai	辨

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

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• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: わける (wakeru, 辨ける)、わきまえる (wakimaeru, 辨える)

• 辨官
• 辨財天

In Japanese shinjitai, 辨, 瓣, and 辯 have been simplified to one character, 弁.

From Middle Chinese 辨 (MC bjenX).

辨 (eumhun 분별할 변 (bunbyeolhal byeon))

1. hanja form^? of 변 (“distinguish, differentiate, discern”)

From Middle Chinese 辨 (MC beanH).

辨 (eumhun 갖출 판 (gatchul pan))

1. hanja form^? of 판 (“prepare, equip”)

辨 (eumhun 두루 편 (duru pyeon))

1. hanja form^? of 편 (“without exception”)

辨: Hán Nôm readings: biện, bẹn

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