瓣

• 弁 (Japanese simplified form which also covers 辨 and 辯)

瓣 (Kangxi radical 97, 瓜+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹人十 (YJHOJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛瓜辛)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 747, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21425
• Dae Jaweon: page 1155, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4043, character 12
• Unihan data for U+74E3

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *breːns) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 瓜 (“melon”).

"segment, section, piece"

Exopassive of 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive 釆 (“[to cause to be] divided”). These three thus may be related to either 班 (OC *praːn, “to distribute → to arrange, classify → class, group”) or Mizo pʰel (“to split, cut in halves”) (with medial *-r- dropped after labial initials according to Mizo phonotactics) (Schuessler, 2007).

"petal"

Either same etymon as "segment, section, piece"; or same etymon as *葩 (OC *pʰraː, “flower”); or related to 燔 (OC *ban, “to burn”), if so, semantically parallel to Tibetan མེ་ཏོག (me tog, “flower”), literally "fire-top".

瓣

1. ^† melon seeds
2. petal
3. segment; section; piece; clove (of garlic)

   • 你再這麼淘氣，非把屁股摔成八瓣兒不可！ [MSC, trad.]
     你再这么淘气，非把屁股摔成八瓣儿不可！ [MSC, simp.]

     Nǐ zài zhème táoqì, fēi bǎ pìgǔ shuāi chéng bā bànr bùkě! [Pinyin]

     If you keep on being this naughty, you'll fall down and split your butt into eight pieces!

4. (medicine) Short for 瓣膜 (bànmó, “valve”).

   二尖瓣  ―  èrjiānbàn  ―  mitral valve; bicuspid valve

5. Classifier for pieces and segments, such as those of (cut-up) fruits or petals.
6. (Cantonese) Classifier for domains of activity.; field

   瓣瓣掂 [Cantonese]  ―  faan⁶ faan⁶ dim⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  great at everything; versatile

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弁)

1. flower petal
2. valve

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: はなびら (hanabira)

• 安(あん)全(ぜん)瓣(べん) (anzenben)
• 花(か)瓣(べん) (kaben)
• 豆(とう)瓣(べん)醤(しょう) (tōbenshō)
• 逆(ぎゃく)止(し)瓣(べん) (gyakushiben, “check valve”)

瓣(べん) • (ben) 

1. (anatomy) valve (membranous partition, flap, or fold, which allows flow in only one direction, e.g. a heart valve)
2. valve (device that controls the flow of a fluid through a pipe)

• (valve: in anatomy): 瓣膜(べんまく) (benmaku) / 弁膜(べんまく) (benmaku)
• (valve: device): バルブ (barubu)

瓣(べん) • (-ben) 

1. flower petals

In Japanese shinjitai, 瓣, 辨, and 辯 have all been simplified to one character, 弁.

瓣 (eum 판 (pan))

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瓣: Hán Nôm readings: bẹ, biện

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