偭

偭	U+506D, 偭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-506D

← 偬
[U+506C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

偮 →
[U+506E]

Translingual

Han character

偭 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人一田中 (OMWL), four-corner 2126₀, composition ⿰亻面)

face to
violate

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 111, character 26
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 890
Dae Jaweon: page 237, character 23
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 188, character 6
Unihan data for U+506D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		偭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 偭
Small seal script s05808
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (面) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
蝒	*men
緬	*menʔ
湎	*menʔ
愐	*menʔ
偭	menʔ, mens
勔	*menʔ
面	*mens
麵	*meːns

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): miǎn (mian³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁵ / min⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): meng³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): biān

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: miǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: miǎn
  - Wade–Giles: mien³
  - Yale: myǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mean
  - Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: min⁵ / min⁶
  - Yale: míhn / mihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: min⁵ / min⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: min⁵ / min⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːn¹³/, /miːn²²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: meng³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: meng³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛŋ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: biān
  - Tâi-lô: biān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bien
  - IPA (Xiamen): /biɛn²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛn²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /biɛn³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛn³³/

Middle Chinese: mjienX, mjienH

Rime
Character	偭	偭
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	彌兖切	彌箭切
Baxter	mjienX	mjienH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇn^X/	/miᴇn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛn^X/	/miɛn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/mjæn^X/	/mjæn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mian^X/	/mian^H/
Li Rong	/miɛn^X/	/miɛn^H/
Wang Li	/mĭɛn^X/	/mĭɛn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛn^X/	/mi̯ɛn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miǎn	miàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	min⁵	min⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*menʔ/, /*mens/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	偭	偭
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9096	9099
Phonetic component	面	面
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	緬	面
Old Chinese	/*menʔ/	/*mens/

Definitions

偭

(literary) to face; to be facing
(literary) to violate; to transgress
固時俗之工巧兮，偭規矩而改錯。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
固时俗之工巧兮，偭规矩而改错。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE
Gù shísú zhī gōngqiǎo xī, miǎn guījǔ ér gǎicuò. [Pinyin]
Solid the contemporary trend of trickeries: against the norms and substituting misdeeds.

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “偭”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 157.

Japanese

Kanji

偭

(Hyōgai kanji)

transgress

Readings

On (unclassified): べん (ben)、めん (men)
Kun: むかう (mukau)、そむく (somuku)、かなう (kanau)

Korean

Hanja

偭 (eum 면 (myeon))

face to