piǎnpián

brag

Evolution

諞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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piǎn

brag, boast; quibble; to brag

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m-pʰ]e[r]ʔ

bjienX

biàn

insincere words

*[m-pʰ]e[r]

bjien

pián

insincere words


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4370th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8ADE

Shuowen

“諞,便巧言也。从言,扁聲。《周書》曰:‘善諞言。’《論語》曰:‘友諞佞。’”


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