Kanji Database
English
辨

辨 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. わける。
  2. 正しいか正しくないかを分ける。わきまえる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「刀」+音符「辡」。「わける」「わかつ」を意味する漢語｛辨｝を表す字。もと「辡」が｛辨｝を表す字であったが、「刀」を加えた。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

discrimination, dispose of, distinguish

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ベン
  • ヘン
Kun (native)
  • わきま(える)
  • わ(ける)
  • はなびら
  • あらそ(う)
Other languages
  • 拼音bian4
  • 한글byeon
  • Hán-ViệtBiện
  • Hán-ViệtBiến

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
辛(からい)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+8FA8

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿴辡𬼀

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-7-9
Four Corner
0044.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a5.30
Nelson
4648