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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手心心 (QPP), four-corner 51010, composition)

  1. comment, criticize
  2. wholesale

References

  • KangXi: page 419, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11845
  • Dae Jaweon: page 766, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1835, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6279

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*piː, *biːʔ
*piː
*piː, *pʰi
*piː
*piː
*piː
*piː, *bis
*pʰiː
*pʰiː
*pʰiː, *bi
*pʰiː
*pʰiːs
*biː
*biː, *bi
*biːʔ
*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ
*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ
*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
*piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ
*piʔ, *pis
*piʔ
*piʔ, *bi
*piʔ, *bi, *bis
*pris
*pis
*pʰis
*bi
*bi
*bi
*bi
*bi
*bi, *bis
*bi
*bi
*bi
*bis, *biɡ
*bin

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰei/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰei/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰɛj/
Li
Rong
/pʰei/
Wang
Li
/pʰiei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 499
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰiː/

Definitions

  1. to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; measure word for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. criticism

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(bi, byeol) (hangeul 비, 별, revised bi, byeol, McCune-Reischauer pi, pyŏl, Yale pi, pyel)

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Vietnamese

Character

Readings

References