忭

忭 U+5FED, 忭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FED ← 忬 [U+5FEC] CJK Unified Ideographs 忮 → [U+5FEE]

Translingual

Han character

忭 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心卜卜 (PYY), four-corner 9003₀, composition ⿰忄卞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 378, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10372
• Dae Jaweon: page 706, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2278, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5FED

Chinese

simp. and trad.		忭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
汴	*brons
卞	*brons
忭	*brons
抃	*brons
犿	*blon, *qʰloːn
笇	*smoːns
飰	*bons

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶

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• 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/

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• Middle Chinese: bjenH

Rime
Character	忭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	皮變切
Baxter	bjenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/biænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bianH/
Li Rong	/bjɛnH/
Wang Li	/bĭɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*brons/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	忭
Reading #	1/1
No.	749
Phonetic component	卞
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	卞
Old Chinese	/*brons/

Definitions

忭

1. (literary) delighted; glad; happy; joyful

Compounds

• 忭悅／忭悦
• 忭懽／忭欢
• 忭賀／忭贺
• 忭躍／忭跃
• 忭頌／忭颂
• 欣忭 (xīnbiàn)
• 歡忭／欢忭

 

Japanese

Kanji

忭

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. delighted
2. pleased

Readings

• On (unclassified): へん (hen)、べん (ben)
• Kun: たのしむ (tanoshimu)

Korean

Hanja

忭 (eum 변 (byeon))

1. delighted
2. pleased

Vietnamese

Han character

忭: Hán Nôm readings: biện

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References

• Nom Foundation