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編

biān

knit, compile, edit

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 扁 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

扁 sound component

扁  Sound component

biǎn, piān

  

flat

Evolution

編 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
編 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
編 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

编 (編) 

biān

knit, weave; arrange; compile; to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate

Most common words with 編
Freq.
Word
Meaning

编

to weave

编辑

to edit

编制

to weave

编剧

scenario

编号

to number

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤe[r]

pen

biān

plait, weave

*pe[r] (~ *mə-pe[r] in donor to HM)

pjien

biān

plait, weave


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 32.4844% of movies

1014th most common character in movies

858th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

编

Unicode

U+7DE8

Shuowen

“編，次簡也。从糸，扁聲。”


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