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Kanji Detail for 辨 - "distinguish"

  • Meaning

    辨 means "distinguish."

    1. Distinguish - To discern; to differentiate.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    discrimination; dispose of; distinguish

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    distinguish, discriminate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to distinguish; to recognize

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to recognize, to distinguish, to discriminate

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To distinguish. Examining the right and wrong, good and bad of things and being able to differentiate them is called 辨. Such as calling a fool 不辨寂麥 (cannot distinguish beans from wheat). Expression from "Zuozhuan." | Interchangeable with 辯 in 爭辯 (debate). Comparing right and wrong. Such as 辨駁 (refute), 辨明 (clarify). A literary genre debating principles is also called 辨.
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