便嬛

Chinese

		advantageous; cheap; ordinary advantageous; cheap; ordinary; plain; convenient; handy; easy; then; so; thus; to relieve oneself	clever; pretty; place where supreme bestows books
simp. and trad. (便嬛)		便	嬛

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): piánxuān

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢˊ ㄒㄩㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶ hyun¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: piánxuān
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˊ ㄒㄩㄢ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyanshiuan
  - IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛn³⁵ ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: bin⁶ hyun¹
  - Yale: bihn hyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶ hyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶ hün¹
  - IPA ^(key): /piːn²² hyːn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /biᴇn^H hiuᴇn|ʔiuᴇn/▼

Rime
Character	便	嬛	嬛
Reading #	2/2	1/3	2/3
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	曉 (32)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)	仙 (78)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III	III
Fanqie	婢面切	許緣切	於緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇn^H/	/hiuᴇn/	/ʔiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛn^H/	/hʷiɛn/	/ʔʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/bjæn^H/	/xjuæn/	/ʔjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bian^H/	/hwian/	/ʔwian/
Li Rong	/biɛn^H/	/xiuɛn/	/ʔiuɛn/
Wang Li	/bĭɛn^H/	/xĭwɛn/	/ĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛn^H/	/xi̯wɛn/	/ʔi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biàn	xuān	yuān

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*bens qʰʷen|qʷen/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	便
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjien^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]e[n]-s/
English	comfortable; advantageous
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	便	嬛	嬛
Reading #	2/2	1/3	2/3
No.	778	16248	16251
Phonetic component	便	睘	睘
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	便	翾	娟
Old Chinese	/*bens/	/*qʰʷen/	/*qʷen/

Adjective

便嬛

(old) graceful

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