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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水竹竹女 (EHHV), four-corner 32132, composition𠂢)

References

  • KangXi: page 623, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17428
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1019, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1611, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6D3E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰɯns, *mpreːɡs
*m̥ʰreːɡs
*mreːɡ
*mreːɡ
*mreːɡ
*mreːɡ
*mreːɡ, *meːɡ
*mreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *m̥ʰreːɡs) : semantic  (water; river) + phonetic 𠂢.

Note the composition detail that the left vertical stroke curves to the left, while the middle vertical stroke is perfectly vertical.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pʰai⁵¹/
Harbin /pʰai⁵³/
Tianjin /pʰai⁵³/
Jinan /pʰɛ²¹/
Qingdao /pʰɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰai³¹²/
Xi'an /pʰai⁵³/ ~頭
/pʰai⁴⁴/ ~人去
Xining /pʰɛ⁵³/
Yinchuan /pʰɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /pʰɛ¹³/ 指~
/pʰɛ⁴⁴²/ ~別
Ürümqi /pʰai²¹³/
Wuhan /pʰai³⁵/
Chengdu /pʰai¹³/
Guiyang /pʰai²¹³/
Kunming /pʰæ²¹²/
Nanjing /pʰae⁴⁴/
Hefei /pʰe̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pʰæ³⁵/
Hohhot /pʰɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /pʰa³⁵/
Suzhou /pʰɑ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pʰe̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /pʰa⁴²/
Hui Shexian /pʰɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /pʰa⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /pʰai⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /pʰai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /pʰai²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /pʰai⁵³/
Taoyuan /pʰɑi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰai³³/
Nanning /pʰai³³/
Hong Kong /pʰai³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pʰai²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /puɑi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pʰai³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰai²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fai³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (31)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰˠɛH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰᵚæH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰaɨjH/
Li
Rong
/pʰɛH/
Wang
Li
/pʰaiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pài
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9641
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*m̥ʰreːɡs/

Definitions

  1. tributary of a river
  2. school of thought; sect; branch
  3. style; air; manner
  4. to send; to dispatch
  5. to apportion; to impose
  6. to censure; to blame
  7. Classifier for a scene, an atmosphere, a speech or a sound.
  8. Classifier for factions, schools of thought, groups, etc.
  9. (mathematics) pi (π); the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
  10. (loanword from English pie) pie

Synonyms

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

(hiragana , romaji -ha)

  1. group, faction, (political) wing, school
     (ねこ) ()
    neko-wa
    a cat person

Korean

Hanja

(pa) (hangeul , revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phái, pháy, phai, phới, phe, phơi, )

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References