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蜱
蜱
Translingual
Han character
蜱 (radical 142 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹田十 (LIHWJ), four-corner 56140, composition ⿰虫卑)
References
- KangXi: page 1087, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33182
- Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2863, character 9
- Unihan data for U+8731
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
蜱 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (卑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 捭 | *preːʔ |
| 牌 | *breː, *breː |
| 郫 | *breː, *bre, *be |
| 蠯 | *breː, *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 猈 | *breːʔ, *breː |
| 稗 | *breːs |
| 粺 | *breːs |
| 𥱼 | *breː |
| 豍 | *peː |
| 箄 | *peː, *pe, *peʔ |
| 錍 | *pʰeː, *pe |
| 睥 | *pʰeːs |
| 渒 | *pʰeːs, *pe |
| 鼙 | *beː |
| 鞞 | *beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ |
| 椑 | *beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ |
| 崥 | *beː, *peʔ |
| 髀 | *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ |
| 卑 | *pe |
| 鵯 | *pe, *pʰiɡ |
| 裨 | *pe, *be |
| 痺 | *pe |
| 碑 | *pre |
| 婢 | *peʔ, *beʔ |
| 諀 | *pʰeʔ |
| 脾 | *be |
| 埤 | *be |
| 陴 | *be |
| 蜱 | *be, *mbew |
| 焷 | *be |
| 螷 | *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 庳 | *beʔ |
| 琕 | *biːŋ |
| 萆 | *beɡ, *slɯʔ |
| 綼 | *biɡ, *peːɡ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
- Wade-Giles: p'ih2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
- IPA (key): /pʰi³⁵/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: pei4
- Yale: pèih
- Cantonese Pinyin: pei4
- IPA (key): /pʰei̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pi
- Tâi-lô: pi
- Phofsit Daibuun: py
- IPA (Xiamen): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pi³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: bi (T3)
- IPA (key): /b̻i²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 蜱 | 蜱 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) | 宵 (91) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 符支切 | 彌遙切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/biᴇ/ | /miᴇu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/biɛ/ | /miɛu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/bjɛ/ | /mjæu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/biə̆/ | /miaw/ |
| Li Rong |
/bie/ | /miɛu/ |
| Wang Li |
/bǐe/ | /mĭɛu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/bʱie̯/ | /mi̯ɛu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
pí | miáo |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 蜱 | 蜱 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 390 | 397 |
| Phonetic component |
卑 | 卑 |
| Rime group |
支 | 宵 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
陴 | 蜱 |
| Old Chinese |
/*be/ | /*mbew/ |
Definitions
蜱
- tick (the parasitic arachnid)
Synonyms
Japanese
Kanji
蜱
Readings
Noun
Usage notes
More commonly spelled 壁蝨 in kanji. As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as ダニ. See those entries for more detail.