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蔽

蔽

See also: 芘

Translingual

Han character

蔽 (radical 140 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿火月大 (TFBK), four-corner 44248)

  1. cover, hide, conceal
  2. shelter

References

  • KangXi: page 1056, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31888
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3277, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+853D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蔽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蔽 *peds
鄨 *peds, *ped
鷩 *peds, *ped
彆 *peds, *peːd
潎 *pʰeds, *pʰed
斃 *beds, *bed
敝 *beds, *bed
幣 *beds
弊 *beds
鱉 *ped
虌 *ped
憋 *ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥 *pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅 *pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳 *bed, *pʰeːd
撇 *pʰeːd
撆 *pʰeːd
暼 *pʰeːd
蹩 *beːd
襒 *beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peds) : semantic 艸 ‎(“grass”) + phonetic 敝 ‎(OC *beds, *bed).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蔽
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 祭 (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 必袂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /piᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /piɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /piajH/
Li
Rong		 /piɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /pĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蔽
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjiejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pe[t]-s/
English cover (v.)

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 蔽
Reading # 1/1
No. 627
Phonetic
component		 敝
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 蔽
Old
Chinese		 /*peds/

Definitions

蔽

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Japanese

Kanji

蔽

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. cover, hide, conceal

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

蔽 • ‎(pye, byeol, bul) (hangeul 폐, 별, 불, revised pye, byeol, bul, McCune-Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, pul, Yale phyey, pyel, pul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔽 (tế)

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