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璧
璧
See also: 壁
Translingual
Han character
璧 (radical 96 玉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一土戈 (SJMGI), four-corner 70103)
- 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. |
璧 |
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Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (辟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
嬖 | *peːɡs |
薜 | *beːɡs, *preːɡ |
鐾 | *beːɡs |
臂 | *peɡs |
譬 | *pʰeɡs |
避 | *beɡs |
檗 | *preːɡ |
擘 | *preːɡ |
糪 | *preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ |
掰 | *preːɡ |
繴 | *breːɡ, *peːɡ |
辟 | *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ |
璧 | *peɡ |
鐴 | *peɡ |
躄 | *peɡ |
襞 | *peɡ |
僻 | *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ |
癖 | *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ |
廦 | *pʰeɡ, *peːɡ |
擗 | *beɡ |
躃 | *beɡ |
闢 | *beɡ |
壁 | *peːɡ |
鼊 | *peːɡ |
霹 | *pʰeːɡ |
劈 | *pʰeːɡ |
澼 | *pʰeːɡ |
憵 | *pʰeːɡ |
甓 | *beːɡ |
鷿 | *beːɡ |
幦 | *mbeːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peɡ) : phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 玉 (“jewel”) – a type of jewel, jade.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: pih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
- IPA (key): /pi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: bik3, bik1
- Yale: bik, bīk
- Cantonese Pinyin: bik8, bik7
- IPA (key): /pɪk̚³/, /pɪk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Rime | |
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Character | 璧 |
Reading # | 1/1 |
Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
Final (韻) | 昔 (123) |
Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
Openness (開合) | Open |
Division (等) | III |
Fanqie | 必益切 |
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) | |
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Character | 璧 |
Reading # | 1/1 |
Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
bì |
Middle Chinese |
‹ pjiek › |
Old Chinese |
/*pek/ |
English | circular jade insignium |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; |
Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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Character | 璧 |
Reading # | 1/1 |
No. | 676 |
Phonetic component |
辟 |
Rime group |
錫 |
Rime subdivision |
0 |
Corresponding MC rime |
辟 |
Old Chinese |
/*peɡ/ |
Definitions
璧
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Japanese
Kanji
璧
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
璧 • (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune-Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)
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