苄

See also: 芐

苄 U+82C4, 苄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82C4 ← 苃 [U+82C3] CJK Unified Ideographs 苅 → [U+82C5]

Translingual

Han character

苄 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜卜 (TYY), four-corner 4423, composition ⿱艹卞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1022, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30770
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3184, character 3
• Unihan data for U+82C4

Chinese

trad.		苄
simp. #		苄

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 艹 + phonetic 卞.

Historical forms of the character 苄
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Etymology

Borrowed from English benzyl.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biàn (bian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biàn
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴
    • Yale: byàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann
    • Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bin⁶
    • Yale: bihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²²/

Definitions

苄

1. (～基) (organic chemistry) benzyl

Compounds

• 苄基 (biànjī)