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辯

biàn

dispute

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 辡 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

辡 sound component

辡  Sound component

biàn

  

criminals accusing one another

辡 also serves as a meaning component.

Evolution

辯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

辩 (辯) 

biàn

dispute, argue, debate, discuss; to dispute; to debate; to argue; to discuss

Most common words with 辯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辩护

to defend

辩

to dispute

辩论

debate

辩解

to explain

争辩

a dispute

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]renʔ

bjenX

biàn

distinguish, dispute (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.1552% of movies

1304th most common character in movies

1355th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

辩

Unicode

U+8FAF

Shuowen

“辯，治也。从言在辡之間。”


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