翩

翩 U+7FE9, 翩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FE9 ← 翨 [U+7FE8] CJK Unified Ideographs 翪 → [U+7FEA]

Translingual

Han character

翩 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹月尸一一 (HBSMM) or 戈月尸一一 (IBSMM), four-corner 1722₀, composition ⿰扁羽)

1. fly, flutter

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 958, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28762
• Dae Jaweon: page 1404, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3353, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7FE9

Chinese

trad.		翩
simp. #		翩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 翩
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
斒	*preːn, *praːn
鯿	*praːn, *pen
編	*pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
揙	*pen
褊	*penʔ
篇	*pʰen
偏	*pʰen, *pʰens
翩	*pʰen
媥	*pʰen
扁	*pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ
萹	*pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
騗	*pʰens
騙	*pʰens
諞	*ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ
楄	*ben, *beːn
蝙	*peːn
甂	*peːn
猵	*peːn, *binʔ
牑	*peːn
蹁	*peːn, *beːn
匾	*peːnʔ
碥	*peːnʔ
惼	*peːnʔ
糄	*peːnʔ
徧	*peːns
遍	*peːns
頨	*peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan
艑	*beːnʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piān (pian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pin¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): peng¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phian

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piān
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pian
    • Wade–Giles: pʻien¹
    • Yale: pyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pian
    • Palladius: пянь (pjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pin¹
    • Yale: pīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: pin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: peng¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: peng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: peng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phian
    • Tâi-lô: phian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiefn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiɛn⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: phjien

Rime
Character	翩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	芳連切
Baxter	phjien
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰian/
Li Rong	/pʰiɛn/
Wang Li	/pʰĭɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	piān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pin1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰe[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰen/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	翩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	piān
Middle Chinese	‹ phjien ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰe[n]/
English	fly, flutter about
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	翩
Reading #	1/1
No.	713
Phonetic component	扁
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	篇
Old Chinese	/*pʰen/

Definitions

翩

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Compounds

• 浮想聯翩 / 浮想联翩 (fúxiǎngliánpiān)
• 翩然
• 翩然俊雅
• 翩翩 (piānpiān)
• 翩翩起舞
• 翩翻
• 翩若驚鴻 / 翩若惊鸿
• 翩躚 / 翩跹 (piānxiān)
• 聯翩 / 联翩 (liánpiān)
• 聯聯翩翩 / 联联翩翩
• 連翩 / 连翩 (liánpiān)
• 風度翩翩 / 风度翩翩

Japanese

Kanji

翩

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: ひるがえる (hirugaeru, 翩える)^{←ひるがへる (firugaferu, 翩へる, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

翩 (eum 편 (pyeon))

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