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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹手一手十 (HQMQJ), four-corner 21550, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 427, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11969
  • Dae Jaweon: page 775, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1846, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+62DC

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*proːds
*pʰroːds

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pai⁵¹/
Harbin /pai⁵³/
Tianjin /pai⁵³/
Jinan /pɛ²¹/
Qingdao /pɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pai³¹²/
Xi'an /pai⁴⁴/
Xining /pɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /pɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /pɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /pai²¹³/
Wuhan /pai³⁵/
Chengdu /pai¹³/
Guiyang /pai²¹³/
Kunming /pæ²¹²/
Nanjing /pae⁴⁴/
Hefei /pe̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pæ³⁵/
Hohhot /pɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /pa³⁵/
Suzhou /pɑ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pe̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /pa⁴²/
Hui Shexian /pa³²⁴/
Tunxi /pa⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /pai⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /pai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /pai⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /pai⁵³/
Taoyuan /pɑi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pai³³/
Nanning /pai³³/
Hong Kong /pai³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pai²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /puɑi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pai³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pai²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbai³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (33)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠɛiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚæiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pɐiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pəɨjH/
Li
Rong
/pɛiH/
Wang
Li
/pɐiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/păiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bài
Middle
Chinese
‹ pɛjH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.pˤro[t]-s/
English bow, bend (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 222
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
𢷎
Old
Chinese
/*proːds/

Definitions

  1. to do obeisance; bow; kowtow

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(bae) (hangeul , revised bae, McCune-Reischauer pae, Yale pay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bái, vái, bay, bây, phai, phải)

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