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Translingual

Han character

(radical 67 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中卜卜大 (LYYK), four-corner 11400, composition)

  1. graceful, elegant, beautiful

References

  • KangXi: page 477, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13469
  • Dae Jaweon: page 835, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2170, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+6590

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pʰɯːlʔ
*brɯːl
*brɯːl
*brɯːl, *buːl
*prɯl
*breː, *brɯːls
*puːls
*buːl, *bɯl
*buːl
*buːlʔ
*buːlʔ, *pɯds, *bɯl, *bɯls
*pɯl
*pɯl
*pɯl
*pɯl
*pɯl, *pʰɯlʔ
*pɯl
*pɯl, *pʰɯl
*pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls
*pɯl, *pɯlʔ
*pɯlʔ
*pɯlʔ
*pɯlʔ, *bɯls
*pɯlʔ
*pɯlʔ
*pɯls
*pʰɯl
*pʰɯl, *pʰɯlʔ, *bɯls
*pʰɯl
*pʰɯl
*pʰɯlʔ
*pʰɯlʔ
*bɯl, *bɯls
*bɯlʔ
*bɯls
*bɯls
*bɯls

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (21)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰʉiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰʷɨiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰiuəiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰujX/
Li
Rong
/pʰiuəiX/
Wang
Li
/pʰĭwəiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰwe̯iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fěi
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3080 3100
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pɯl/ /*pʰɯlʔ/

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(bi) (hangeul , revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phỉ)

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