Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 邊

Modern (Beijing) reading: biān

Preclassic Old Chinese: pēn

Classic Old Chinese: pēn

Western Han Chinese: pjān

Eastern Han Chinese: piān

Early Postclassic Chinese: piēn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: piēn

Late Postclassic Chinese: piēn

Middle Chinese: pien

English meaning : side, periphery of territory

Russian meaning[s]: 1) край; бок, сторона; опушка; берег; кайма, обшлаг; поля (бумаги); послелог: с края, около, сбоку; 2) граница; пограничный; сокр. ист. Пограничный район; 3) окраина, захолустье; 4) успешное начало, первый успех; 5) Бянь (фамилия)

Comments: Viet. bên is an older reading; regular Sino-Viet. is biên 'side, edge'. A loan from the same source (with nasal assimilation) may be Viet. miền 'region, district'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 162

Four-angle index: 6559

Karlgren code: 0224 c-e

Go-on: hen

Kan-on: hen

Vietnamese reading: bên

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