biàn

braid

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Components

Sound component
Meaning component

thread

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbenXm-pˤe[r]ʔ braid (v., n.) (Shuōwén)

說文解字

《說文》:“辮,交也。从糸,辡聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica