bèn

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ben"

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• ben — nonstandard

Romanization

bèn (ben⁴, Zhuyin ㄅㄣˋ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 佄
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倴
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坌
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 央
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 奔
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 捹
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 撪
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 桳
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燌／𰞻
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 獐
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 笨
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軦
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 輽
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逩／奔
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 体

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 便 (SV: tiện).

This word belongs to a group of post-reconstructed Old Chinese, pre-Middle Chinese loans in Vietnamese, showing both the correspondence of Vietnamese A tones (ngang/huyền) with Middle Chinese C tone (due to the loss of *-s) and the absence of palatalization in the onset, while the Sino-Vietnamese form from Late Middle Chinese shows the palatalization *bj- > t- and the tonal correspondance between Vietnamese B tones (sắc/nặng) and Sinitic tone C (去).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛn˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛŋ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛŋ˨˩]

Adverb

bèn • (𠂫, 𠂪)

1. (literary) and so one does something; then; thereupon