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碧

碧

Translingual

Han character

碧 (radical 112 石+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一日一口 (MAMR), four-corner 16601)

  1. jade
  2. green, blue

References

  • KangXi: page 833, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24334
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1249, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2441, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+78A7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 碧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (白) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
怕 *pʰraːɡs, *pʰraːɡ
帕 *pʰraːɡs, *mbraːd
粕 *pʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
胉 *pʰaːɡ
泊 *baːɡ
箔 *baːɡ
魄 *tʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
皕 *prɯɡ
伯 *praːɡ
百 *praːɡ
迫 *praːɡ
敀 *praːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
柏 *praːɡ
湐 *praːɡ
拍 *pʰraːɡ
珀 *pʰraːɡ
皛 *pʰraːɡ, *ɡeːwʔ
洦 *mpʰraːɡ, *mbraːɡ
白 *braːɡ
帛 *braːɡ
舶 *braːɡ
鮊 *braːɡ
陌 *mbraːɡ
帞 *mbraːɡ
袹 *mbraːɡ
蛨 *mbraːɡ
貊 *mbraːɡ
佰 *mbraːɡ
銆 *mbraːɡ
碧 *praɡ, *preɡ
咟 *ɦmreːɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 碧
Mandarin Beijing /pi⁵¹/
Harbin /pi⁵³/
Tianjin /pi⁵³/
Jinan /pi²¹/
Qingdao /pi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pi³¹²/
Xi'an /pi²¹/
Xining /pji⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pi¹³/
Lanzhou /pi¹³/
Ürümqi /pi²¹³/
Wuhan /pi²¹³/
Chengdu /pi³¹/
Guiyang /pi²¹/
Kunming /pi³¹/
Nanjing /piʔ⁵/
Hefei /piəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /piəʔ²/
Pingyao /piʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /piəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /piɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /piəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /piəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /pi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /piʔ²¹/
Tunxi /pi⁵/
Xiang Changsha /pi²⁴/
Xiangtan /pʰi²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /piʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /pit̚¹/
Taoyuan /pit̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pek̚⁵/
Nanning /pek̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pik̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pʰik̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pʰɛiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pi²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰek̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbek̚⁵/
Rime
Character 碧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 昔 (124)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彼役切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pwiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʷiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piuæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pwiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /piuɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /pĭwɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯wɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 b-
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 碧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjæk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*prak/
English light blue

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 碧 碧
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 219 221
Phonetic
component		 白 白
Rime
group		 鐸 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 碧 碧
Old
Chinese		 /*praɡ/ /*preɡ/

Definitions

碧

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Compounds

  • 碧波
  • 碧澄
  • 碧海
  • 碧空
  • 碧蓝
  • 碧绿
  • 碧螺春
  • 碧桃
  • 碧血
  • 碧油油, 碧油油的
  • 碧玉

Japanese

Kanji

碧

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

碧 • ‎(byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune-Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

碧 (bích, biếc)

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