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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月竹田十 (BHWJ), four-corner 76240)

References

  • KangXi: page 985, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29579
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1438, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2089, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+813E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*preːʔ
*breː, *breː
*breː, *bre, *be
*breː, *be, *breːŋʔ
*breːʔ, *breː
*breːs
*breːs
𥱼 *breː
*peː
*peː, *pe, *peʔ
*pʰeː, *pe
*pʰeːs
*pʰeːs, *pe
*beː
*beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ
*beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ
*beː, *peʔ
*beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ
*pe
*pe, *pʰiɡ
*pe, *be
*pe
*pre
*peʔ, *beʔ
*pʰeʔ
*be
*be
*be
*be, *mbew
*be
*be, *breːŋʔ
*beʔ
*biːŋ
*beɡ, *slɯʔ
*biɡ, *peːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/biᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/biɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/bjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/biə̆/
Li
Rong
/bie/
Wang
Li
/bǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjie ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-[p]e/
English spleen

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. 385
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*be/

Definitions

  1. (anatomy) spleen
  2. disposition; liking; temperament

Compounds

  • 不傷脾胃不伤脾胃
  • 使脾氣使脾气
  • 古怪脾氣古怪脾气
  • 噪脾
  • 大發脾氣大发脾气
  • 巢脾
  • 巨脾症
  • 心脾
  • 感人心脾
  • 投脾胃
  • 暴脾氣暴脾气
  • 沁人心脾
  • 沁入心脾
  • 沒脾氣没脾气 (méipíqi)
  • 灰脾氣灰脾气
  • 脾憋
  • 脾氣脾气 (píqi)
  • 脾氣情性脾气情性
  • 脾火
  • 脾癉
  • 脾胃 (píwèi)
  • 脾腫脾肿
  • 脾臟脾脏 (pízàng)
  • 脾虛脾虚
  • 脾鱉脾鳖
  • 軟調脾软调脾
  • 醒脾
  • 長脾氣长脾气
  • 鬧脾氣闹脾气

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

References

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jokoɕi]

Noun

(hiragana よこし, romaji yokoshi)

  1. (anatomy) spleen
    • 931938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 2, page 35:
      脾 白虎通云 脾 俾移反 與古之 [...] 土之精也 色黄 [...] 土藏也 [...]

Korean

Hanja

(bi) (hangeul , revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, tỳ)

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