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Translingual

Han character

(radical 169 +3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木竹 (ANDH), four-corner 77247, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1330, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41222
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1835, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4283, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+9589

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*piːds, *piːd
*piːds

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pi⁵¹/
Harbin /pi⁵³/
Tianjin /pi⁵³/
Jinan /pi²¹/
Qingdao /pi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pi³¹²/
Xi'an /pi⁴⁴/
Xining /pji²¹³/
Yinchuan /pi¹³/
Lanzhou /pi¹³/
Ürümqi /pi²¹³/
Wuhan /pi³⁵/
Chengdu /pi¹³/
Guiyang /pi²¹³/
Kunming /pi²¹²/
Nanjing /pi⁴⁴/
Hefei /pz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pi⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pi³⁵/
Hohhot /pi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /pi³⁵/
Suzhou /pi⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /pei⁴²/
Hui Shexian /pi³²⁴/
Tunxi /pi⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /pei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /pi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /pi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /pi⁵³/
Taoyuan /pi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pɐi³³/
Nanning /pɐi³³/
Hong Kong /pɐi²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pi²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pɛi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pi³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pi³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbi³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (1) (1)
Final () (39) (87)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/peiH/ /pet̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/peiH/ /pet̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/pɛiH/ /pɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pɛjH/ /pɛt̚/
Li
Rong
/peiH/ /pet̚/
Wang
Li
/pieiH/ /piet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pieiH/ /piet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˤi[t]-s/
English close (v.); obstruct

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 658 660
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*piːds/ /*piːd/

Definitions

  1. shut, close
  2. obstruct, block up

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. close, shut

Readings

Antonyms

  • (to shut, close):

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(pye, byeol) (hangeul , , revised pye, byeol, McCune-Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, Yale phyey, pyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bế, bấy, )

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