瓣

• 弁 (Japanese simplified form which also covers 辨 and 辯)

瓣 (Kangxi radical 97, 瓜+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹人十 (YJHOJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛瓜辛)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 747, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21425
• Dae Jaweon: page 1155, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4043, character 12
• Unihan data for U+74E3

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *breːns): phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 瓜 (“melon”). However, the phonetic component (the reduplication of the knife to mark prisoners) perhaps symbolizes two prisoners accusing each other, which then leads to the concept of "discrimination, differentiation" and finally to the concept of "part, segment, what is differentiated", originally referred to melon seeds.

"segment, section, piece"

Exopassive of 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive 釆 (“[to cause to be] divided”). These three thus 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).

"petal"

Either same etymon as "segment, section, piece"; or same etymon as *葩 (OC *pʰraː, “flower”); or related to 燔 (OC *ban, “to burn”), if so, semantically parallel to Tibetan མེ་ཏོག (me tog, “flower”), literally "fire-top".

瓣

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) melon seeds
2. petal
3. segment; section; piece; clove (of garlic)

   • 你再這麼淘氣，非把屁股摔成八瓣兒不可！ [MSC, trad.]
     你再这么淘气，非把屁股摔成八瓣儿不可！ [MSC, simp.]

     Nǐ zài zhème táoqì, fēi bǎ pìgǔ shuāi chéng bā bànr bùkě! [Pinyin]

     If you keep on being this naughty, you'll fall down and split your butt into eight pieces!

4. (medicine) short for 瓣膜 (bànmó, “valve”)

   二尖瓣  ―  èrjiānbàn  ―  mitral valve; bicuspid valve

5. Classifier for pieces and segments, such as those of (cut-up) fruits or petals. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
6. (Cantonese) Classifier for domains of activity.; field

   瓣瓣掂 [Cantonese]  ―  faan⁶ faan⁶ dim⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  great at everything; versatile

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

1. flower petal
2. valve

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: はなびら (hanabira, 瓣)

• 安(あん)全(ぜん)瓣(べん) (anzenben)
• 花(か)瓣(べん) (kaben)
• 豆(とう)瓣(べん)醤(しょう) (tōbenshō)
• 逆(ぎゃく)止(し)瓣(べん) (gyakushiben, “check valve”)

瓣(べん) • (ben) 

1. (anatomy) valve (membranous partition, flap, or fold, which allows flow in only one direction, e.g. a heart valve)
2. valve (device that controls the flow of a fluid through a pipe)

• (valve: in anatomy): 瓣膜(べんまく) (benmaku) / 弁膜(べんまく) (benmaku)
• (valve: device): バルブ (barubu)

瓣(べん) • (-ben) 

1. flower petals

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

瓣 (eum 판 (pan))

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瓣: Hán Nôm readings: bẹ, biện

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