Chinese Character Wiki

辮

biàn

braid

Components
辛 sound component

辛  Sound component

xīn

  

laborious

糸 meaning component

糸  Meaning component

mì

  

silk

thread

辛 sound component

辛  Sound component

xīn

  

laborious

Evolution

辮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
辮 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
辮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

辫 (辮) 

biàn

braid; pigtail, plait, queue; a braid or queue; to plait

Most common words with 辮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辫子

plait

辫

to plait

小辫子

pigtail

发辫

braid

小辫

pigtail

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-pˤe[r]ʔ

benX

biàn

braid (v., n.) (Shuōwén)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.3386% of movies

2869th most common character in movies

3240th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

辫

Unicode

U+8FAE

Shuowen

“辮，交也。从糸，辡聲。”


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