便嬛

Chinese

		advantageous; cheap; ordinary advantageous; cheap; ordinary; plain; convenient; handy; easy; then; so; thus; to relieve oneself	clever; pretty; place where supreme bestows books
trad. (便嬛)		便	嬛
simp. #(便嬛)		便	嬛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piánxuān

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢˊ ㄒㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶ hyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piánxuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˊ ㄒㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piánsyuan
    • Wade–Giles: pʻien²-hsüan¹
    • Yale: pyán-sywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyanshiuan
    • Palladius: пяньсюань (pjanʹsjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛn³⁵ ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin⁶ hyun¹
    • Yale: bihn hyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶ hyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶ hün¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²² hyːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bjienH xjwien|'jwien

Rime
Character	便	嬛	嬛
Reading #	2/2	1/3	2/3
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	曉 (32)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)	仙 (78)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III	III
Fanqie	婢面切	許緣切	於緣切
Baxter	bjienH	xjwien	'jwien
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇnH/	/hiuᴇn/	/ʔiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛnH/	/hʷiɛn/	/ʔʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/bjænH/	/xjuæn/	/ʔjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bianH/	/hwian/	/ʔwian/
Li Rong	/biɛnH/	/xiuɛn/	/ʔiuɛn/
Wang Li	/bĭɛnH/	/xĭwɛn/	/ĭwɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛnH/	/xi̯wɛn/	/ʔi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn	xuān	yuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin6	hyun1	jyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bens  qʰʷen|qʷen/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	便
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjienH ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]e[n]-s/
English	comfortable; advantageous
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.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	便	嬛	嬛
Reading #	2/2	1/3	2/3
No.	778	16248	16251
Phonetic component	便	睘	睘
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	便	翾	娟
Old Chinese	/*bens/	/*qʰʷen/	/*qʷen/

Adjective

便嬛

1. (archaic) graceful