bèn

• ben (nonstandard)

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.
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.
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 体.

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).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛn˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛŋ˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛŋ˨˩]

bèn • (𠂫, 𠂪)

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