弁 — Chinese character
弁
biàn
conical cap worn during the Zhou dynasty
- Pinyin
- biàn
- Radical
- 55 ⼶ (Two Hands)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 厶 廾
- Formation
- pictographic — Two hands 廾 putting the cap 厶 on someone's head
- Japanese
- 弁 as a kanji
弁 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.