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Translingual

Han character

(radical 96 +13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一土戈 (SJMGI), four-corner 70103)

  1. piece of jade with hole in it

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 742, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1142, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+74A7

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*peːɡs
*beːɡs, *preːɡ
*beːɡs
*peɡs
*pʰeɡs
*beɡs
*preːɡ
*preːɡ
*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
*preːɡ
*breːɡ, *peːɡ
*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
*peɡ
*peɡ
*peɡ
*peɡ
*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
*beɡ
*beɡ
*beɡ
*peːɡ
*peːɡ
*pʰeːɡ
*pʰeːɡ
*pʰeːɡ
*pʰeːɡ
*beːɡ
鷿 *beːɡ
*mbeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peɡ) : phonetic  (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic  (jewel) – a type of jewel, jade.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/piᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/piɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/piæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/piajk̚/
Li
Rong
/piɛk̚/
Wang
Li
/pĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjiek ›
Old
Chinese
/*pek/
English circular jade insignium

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. 676
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*peɡ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. ball, sphere

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bích, bệch, bịch, vách)

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