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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 142 +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心心 (LIPP), four-corner 51110, composition)

  1. big ant
  2. high mallow
  3. small force (i.e. ant aid)

References

  • KangXi: page 1077, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32852
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2838, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+868D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*piː, *biːʔ
*piː
*piː, *pʰi
*piː
*piː
*piː
*piː, *bis
*pʰiː
*pʰiː
*pʰiː, *bi
*pʰiː
*pʰiːs
*biː
*biː, *bi
*biːʔ
*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ
*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ
*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
*piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ
*piʔ, *pis
*piʔ
*piʔ, *bi
*piʔ, *bi, *bis
*pris
*pis
*pʰis
*bi
*bi
*bi
*bi
*bi
*bi, *bis
*bi
*bi
*bi
*bis, *biɡ
*bin

Pronunciation


Compounds

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. large ant

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. ant king
  2. mallow