釆

See also: 采, 米, and 来

釆	U+91C6, 釆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91C6

← 釅
[U+91C5]

CJK Unified Ideographs

采 →
[U+91C7]

⾤	U+2FA4, ⾤ KANGXI RADICAL DISTINGUISH

← ⾣
[U+2FA3]

Kangxi Radicals

⾥ →
[U+2FA5]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

釆 (Kangxi radical 165, 釆+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹火木 (HFD) or 難竹火木 (XHFD), four-corner 2090₉, composition ⿱丿米 or ⿻禾丷)

Kangxi radical #165, ⾤.
Shuowen Jiezi radical №17

Derived characters

Appendix:Chinese radical/釆
𤕽, 𭹏, 𠃆, 𩗞, 𫾶, 𣪖, 䧽, 𠀭, 𠳅, 𢍏, 悉, 番, 𠢏, 䎹, 𮖈, 𨁢, 𣗷, 宷, 𥦓
奧, 粵, 敹, 竊

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1290, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40115
Dae Jaweon: page 1790, character 8
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3898, character 1
Unihan data for U+91C6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		釆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 釆
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形). According to Shuowen Jiezi, it's an animal paw with spread toes, hence the character is linked to 蹯.

According to Zhang Shichao (張世超), it's the representation of a wooden plough (力) and some seeds to convey the concept of "disseminate, spread", hence the character is linked to 播.

Unrelated to the top component of 𢍏, used in 奧.

Etymology

Exopassive of 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive 瓣 (OC *breːns, “what is 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).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phien
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piān

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biàn
  - Wade–Giles: pien⁴
  - Yale: byàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
  - Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bin⁶
  - Yale: bihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phien
  - Hakka Romanization System: pien
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pian⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰi̯en⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān
  - Tâi-lô: piān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pien
  - IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /piɛn³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn³³/

Middle Chinese: beanH

Rime
Character	釆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	蒲莧切
Baxter	beanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠɛn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚæn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/bæn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bəɨn^H/
Li Rong	/bɛn^H/
Wang Li	/bæn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱăn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baan⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤre[n]-s/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	釆
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bɛn^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁre[n]-s/
English	discriminate
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Definitions

釆

to distinguish; to discriminate

Japanese

Kanji

釆

(Hyōgai kanji)

separate
divide
topped rice radical (no. 165)

Readings

Go-on: べん (ben)
Kan-on: はん (han)
On: ばん (ban)、へん (hen)
Kun: わかつ (wakatsu)、わかれる (wakareru)、ひずめ (hizume)

Korean

Hanja

釆 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

distinguish
KangXi radical 165

Vietnamese

Han character

釆: Hán Nôm readings: biện, thái, trảy, trẩy

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