釆

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Radical 165 釆

釆 (Kangxi radical 165, 釆+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹火木 (HFD) or 難竹火木 (XHFD), four-corner 2090₉, composition ⿱丿米 or ⿻禾丷)

1. Kangxi radical #165, ⾤.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №17

• Appendix:Chinese radical/釆
• 𤕽, 𭹏, 𠃆, 𩗞, 𫾶, 𣪖, 䧽, 𠀭, 𠳅, 𢍏, 悉, 番, 𠢏, 䎹, 𮖈, 𨁢, 𣗷, 宷, 𥦓
• 奧, 粵, 敹, 竊

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1290, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40115
• Dae Jaweon: page 1790, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3898, character 1
• Unihan data for U+91C6

Historical forms of the character 釆
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) . According to Shuowen Jiezi, it's an animal paw with spread toes, hence the character is linked to 蹯.

According to Zhang Shichao (張世超), it's the representation of a wooden plough (力) and some seeds to convey the concept of "disseminate, spread", hence the character is linked to 播

Exopassive of 辨 (OC *brenʔ, “to divide, distinguish, discriminate”); possibly in the same word-family as another exopassive 瓣 (OC *breːns, “what is divided”). These three thus may be related to either 班 (OC *praːn, “to distribute → to arrange, classify → class, group”) or Mizo pʰel (“to split, cut in halves”) (with medial *-r- dropped after labial initials according to Mizo phonotactics) (Schuessler, 2007).

釆

1. to distinguish; to discriminate

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. separate
2. divide
3. topped rice radical (no. 165)

• Go-on: べん (ben)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• On: ばん (ban)、へん (hen)
• Kun: わかつ (wakatsu)、わかれる (wakareru)、ひずめ (hizume)

釆 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

1. distinguish
2. KangXi radical 165

釆: Hán Nôm readings: biện, thái, trảy, trẩy

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