Definify.com

Definition 2024


See also:

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese stroke order

Han character

(radical 61 +1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心竹 (PH), four-corner 33000, composition丿)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 375, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10299
  • Dae Jaweon: page 701, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2267, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5FC5

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
*mpriɡs, *priɡ, *bliɡ
*mpriɡs
*priɡs
*priɡs
*priɡs, *bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
*priɡs, *priɡ
*priɡs, *bliɡ, *briɡ
*pliŋs, *mbliːɡ
*bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
*mbliːɡ
*pliɡ, *bliɡ
*pliɡ
*pliɡ
*bliɡ, *briɡ
*bliɡ, *briɡ
*bliɡ
*bliɡ
*mriɡ, *mliɡ
*mriɡ
*mriɡ
*mriɡ
*mriɡ
*mliɡ
*mliɡ
*mliɡ
*mliɡ
*smriɡ, *smriɡ
*sriɡ
*sriɡ
*blɯɡ

Etymology unclear – an ideogram or pictogram of some sort. Unrelated to , as bronze script makes clear, but in current form very similar.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pi⁵¹/
Harbin /pi⁵³/
Tianjin /pi⁴⁵/
Jinan /pi⁵⁵/
Qingdao /pi⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /pi⁴²/
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 /pi²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /piʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /pit̚¹/
Taoyuan /pit̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pit̚⁵/
Nanning /pit̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pit̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pit̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pɛiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pi²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pik̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbit̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/piɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/pit̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/pjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pit̚/
Li
Rong
/piĕt̚/
Wang
Li
/pĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjit ›
Old
Chinese
/*pi[t]/
English necessarily

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. 568
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pliɡ/

Definitions

  1. surely; most certainly
  2. must

Compounds

  • 不必 (bùbì)
  • 事在必行
  • 事必躬親事必躬亲
  • 令出必行
  • 何必 (hébì)
  • 信賞必罰信赏必罚
  • 分秒必爭分秒必争
  • 剝極必復剥极必复
  • 務必务必 (wùbì)
  • 勢在必行势在必行
  • 勢必势必 (shìbì)
  • 勢所必然势所必然
  • 否極必泰否极必泰
  • 哀兵必勝哀兵必胜 (āibīngbìshèng)
  • 大可不必
  • 安必思危
  • 必不得已
  • 必修 (bìxiū)
  • 必修科
  • 必備必备 (bìbèi)
  • 必剝必剥
  • 必定 (bìdìng)
  • 必律律
  • 必得 (bìděi)
  • 必必剝剝必必剥剥
  • 必然 (bìrán)
  • 必爭之地必争之地
  • 必經之路必经之路
  • 必若
  • 必要 (bìyào)
  • 必要條件必要条件
  • 必需 (bìxū)
  • 必需品 (bìxūpǐn)
  • 必須必须 (bìxū)
  • 志在必得
  • 忘戰必危忘战必危
  • 想必 (xiǎngbì)
  • 操刀必割
  • 日中必彗
  • 早名必折
  • 是必
  • 有求必應有求必应
  • 未必 (wèibì)
  • 未必盡然未必尽然
  • 末大必折
  • 每戰必勝每战必胜
  • 物極必反物极必反 (wùjíbìfǎn)
  • 理所必然
  • 甘泉必竭
  • 盈則必虧盈则必亏
  • 盛必慮衰盛必虑衰
  • 盛極必衰盛极必衰
  • 盛筵必散
  • 直木必伐
  • 睚眥必報睚眦必报
  • 知過必改知过必改
  • 若必
  • 蘇必略湖苏必略湖
  • 言出必行
  • 言多必失 (yánduōbìshī)
  • 言必有中
  • 言必有據言必有据
  • 諒必谅必
  • 遊必有方游必有方
  • 過盛必衰过盛必衰
  • 錙銖必較锱铢必较
  • 阿必尚
  • 飛必沖天飞必冲天
  • 驕兵必敗骄兵必败
  • 驕者必敗骄者必败

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. inevitably, certainly

Readings

Compounds

  • 必ず (kanarazu): necessarily, certainly
  • 必ずしも (kanarazushimo): not always
  • 必携 (hikkei): handbook, manual
  • 必死 (hisshi): frantic, desperate
  • 必需 (hitsuju): necessary
  • 必需品 (hitsujuhin): necessities
  • 必殺 (hissatsu): definite kill
  • 必修 (hisshū): required (subject)
  • 必勝 (hisshō): certain victory
  • 必須 (hissu): indispensable, required
  • 必須条件 (hissu jōken): essential condition
  • 必然 (hitsuzen): inevitable, necessary
  • 必然的 (hitsuzenteki): inevitable, necessary
  • 必着 (hitchaku): must arrive
  • 必読 (hitsudoku): should be read by all
  • 必要 (hitsuyō): necessity, need
  • 必要性 (hitsuyōsei): necessity
  • 必読書 (hitsudokusho): required reading
  • 不必要 (fuhitsuyō): unnecessary
  • 必死になって (hisshi ni natte): desperately
  • 必見 (hikken): a must-see

Korean

Hanja

(pil) (hangeul , revised pil, McCune-Reischauer p'il, Yale phil)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

(tất, ắt)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.