DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

汴州

Mandarin · pinyin Biàn zhōu

old name of Kaifeng 開封 Kāi fēng

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

汴: biàn · name of a river in Henan; Henan
州: zhōu · administrative division, state

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–1 · Bian4 zhou1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links2source references

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

汴州 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗