扁 · biǎn
flat; tablet, signboard
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
flat; tablet, signboard
- Mandarin
- biǎn
- Cantonese
- bin2
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 扁 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 편
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6241
- Radical
- 戶 · 63
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 扁
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- phjien · 芳連 反切 · #614
- Middle Chinese
- penX · 方典 反切 · #1612
- Middle Chinese
- benX · 薄泫 反切 · #1615
- Middle Chinese
- bjienX · 符善 反切 · #1656
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4964 · phjien = 山開三平仙滂 · penX = 山開四上先幫 · benX = 山開四上先並 · bjienX = 山開三上仙並
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- biǎn
- kCantonese
- bin2
- kDefinition
- flat; tablet, signboard
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 63.5
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:1708
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- biǎn,piān,biān,pián 32261.110
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- biǎn 0064.030 · piān 0871.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- biǎn 021.060 · piān 282.130
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- biǎn(63)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- biǎn粵bin2 piān粵pin1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 芳連 方典 薄泫 符善
- Kangxi positions
- 0415.220
- Guangyun positions
- 139.25 289.43 290.11 294.52
- GSR references
- 0246a
- Cangjie
- HSBT
- Four-corner
- 3022.7