辨

辨 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜十戈中十 (YJILJ), four-corner 0044₁, composition ⿲辛⿰丿丿辛(GJK) or ⿲辛⿰丶丿辛(HT) or ⿲辛⿰丨丿辛(V))

• 𪭀

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1251, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38657
• Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4041, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8FA8

From 辧, a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *breːns, *brenʔ) : phonetic 辡 (OC *prenʔ, *brenʔ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”).

Cognate with 辯 (OC *brenʔ). 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “divide, distinguish, discriminate, dispute”) and its two exopassive derivatives 釆 (“Literally, “(to cause to be) divided” > discriminate, distinguish”) and 瓣 (OC *breːns, “Literally, “what is divided” > piece, section, segment”) belong to the same word-family, which 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).

辨

1. to distinguish; to discriminate

   • 慧士可與辨物，智士可與辨無方，聖人可與辨神明。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     慧士可与辨物，智士可与辨无方，圣人可与辨神明。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Shuoyuan, circa 1^st century BCE

     Huìshì kě yù biàn wù, zhìshì kě yù biàn wúfāng, shèngrén kě yù biàn shénmíng. [Pinyin]

     Intelligent men can participate in discussions of ordinary affairs; wise men can participate in discussions of an unlimited range of matters; and sages can participate in discussions of the most rarefied spiritual matters.

辨

1. ^† to prepare; to equip
2. ^† to administer; to govern; to manage

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

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• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: わける (wakeru, 辨ける); わきまえる (wakimaeru, 辨える)

• 辨官
• 辨財天

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

From Middle Chinese 辨 (MC bjenX).

辨 (eumhun 분별할 변 (bunbyeolhal byeon))

1. Hanja form^? of 변 (“distinguish, differentiate, discern”).

From Middle Chinese 辨 (MC beanH).

辨 (eumhun 갖출 판 (gatchul pan))

1. Hanja form^? of 판 (“prepare, equip”).

辨 (eumhun 두루 편 (duru pyeon))

1. Hanja form^? of 편 (“without exception”).

辨: Hán Nôm readings: biện, bẹn

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