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汴

Biàn

Character

What 汴 means

1. name of a river in Henan
2. Henan

Words starting with 汴

• 汴京Biàn jīngBianjing, Northern Song capital, now called Kaifeng 开封
• 汴州Biàn zhōuold name of Kaifeng 开封
• 汴梁Biàn liángold name of Kaifeng 开封

Characters built on 卞

These share the phonetic component 卞 (biàn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 苄biànbenzyl (chemistry)
• 抃biànto applaud
• 忭biàn(literary) happy; delighted

Sounds the same

Read Biàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 便plain; informal; suitable
• 变to change; to become different; to transform
• 遍everywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time
• 辩to dispute; to debate; to argue
• 辨to distinguish; to recognize
• 辫a braid or queue; to plait
• 卞hurried
• 弁(old) cap (garment); military officer of low rank (in former times); preceding
• 苄benzyl (chemistry)
• 抃to applaud
• 昪(literary) (of sunlight) bright; (literary) happy; delighted (old variant of 忭
• 汳name of an ancient river in Henan