僻

僻 U+50FB, 僻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50FB ← 僺 [U+50FA] CJK Unified Ideographs 僼 → [U+50FC]

Translingual

Han character

僻 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人尸口十 (OSRJ), four-corner 2024₁, composition ⿰亻辟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 118, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1166
• Dae Jaweon: page 250, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 229, character 5
• Unihan data for U+50FB

Chinese

simp. and trad.		僻
2nd round simp.		辟
alternative forms		𠈳 𠒱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僻
Small seal script s05842 Transcribed ancient scripts L28539 L28540 L28541
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (辟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	*beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	*breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟	*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦	*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pì (pi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pik¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): piáh / piéh / pék
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): pia⁵ / pih⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phiah / phiak / phek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): piah⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷phiq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pì
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pì
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi⁴
    • Yale: pì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pih
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pik¹
    • Yale: pīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: pig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɪk̚⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: piáh / piéh / pék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiɑʔ²⁴/, /pʰiɛʔ²⁴/, /pʰɛiʔ²⁴/

Note:

• piáh, piéh - vernacular;
• pék - literary.

• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: pia⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: piā
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰia¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: pia⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰia²¹/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: pih⁶
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: pih
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiʔ²¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: pih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiʔ²/
Note:
• pia5 - vernacular;
• pih6 - literary.
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiah
    • Tâi-lô: phiah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiaq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰiaʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiak
    • Tâi-lô: phiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phek
    • Tâi-lô: phik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pheg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪk̚³²/
Note:
• phiah - vernacular (“remote; codewords”);
• phiak/phek - literary.
• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: piah⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phiah
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiaʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷phiq
    • MiniDict: phih^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴phiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pʰiɪʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: phjiek, phek

Rime
Character	僻	僻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	芳辟切	普擊切
Baxter	phjiek	phek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiæk̚/	/pʰɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰiajk̚/	/pʰɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/pʰiɛk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭɛk̚/	/pʰiek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ɛk̚/	/pʰiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pi	pi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pik1	pik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰeɡ/, /*pʰeːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	僻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pì
Middle Chinese	‹ phjiek ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰek/
English	perverse
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	僻	僻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	680	697
Phonetic component	辟	辟
Rime group	錫	錫
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	僻	霹
Old Chinese	/*pʰeɡ/	/*pʰeːɡ/

Definitions

僻

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to avoid; to evade
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) unorthodox
3. remote; out of the way

   偏僻  ―  piānpì  ―  remote; out of the way

   荒僻  ―  huāngpì  ―  desolate

4. uncommon; rare

   生僻  ―  shēngpì  ―  uncommon; rare (characters, words, etc.)

   僻字  ―  pìzì  ―  rare characters

5. eccentric; odd; peculiar

   孤僻  ―  gūpì  ―  peculiar; eccentric

6. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) codewords used in certain professions or gangs

Compounds

• 乖僻 (guāipì)
• 偏僻 (piānpì)
• 僻事
• 僻儒
• 僻典
• 僻地 (pìdì)
• 僻壤 (pìrǎng)
• 僻壤窮鄉 / 僻壤穷乡
• 僻巷 (pìxiàng)
• 僻格剌子
• 僻淨 / 僻净
• 僻然
• 僻處 / 僻处
• 僻處一方 / 僻处一方
• 僻見 / 僻见
• 僻路
• 僻道
• 僻遠 / 僻远 (pìyuǎn)
• 僻陋
• 僻靜 / 僻静 (pìjìng)
• 冷僻 (lěngpì)
• 孤僻 (gūpì)
• 怪僻 (guàipì)
• 摘僻
• 放誕詭僻 / 放诞诡僻
• 生僻 (shēngpì)
• 窮山僻壤 / 穷山僻壤
• 窮鄉僻壤 / 穷乡僻壤 (qióngxiāngpìrǎng)
• 荒僻 (huāngpì)
• 邪僻 (xiépì)
• 鄉僻 / 乡僻
• 靜僻 / 静僻

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bèi (bei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bui⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bèi
    • Wade–Giles: pei⁴
    • Yale: bèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bey
    • Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bui⁶
    • Yale: buih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bui⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bui⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːi̯²²/

Definitions

僻

1. alternative form of 背 (“remote; secluded; out-of-the-way”)

Compounds

• 僻角
• 僻靜 / 僻静 (pìjìng)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00247
• “僻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 僻

僻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へき (heki)、ひ (hi)、へい (hei)
• Kun: ひがむ (higamu, 僻む)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 僻 (MC phjiek|phek). Recorded as Middle Korean 벽 (pyek) (Yale: pyek) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pjʌ̹k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [벽]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

僻

僻 (eumhun 후미질 벽 (humijil byeok))

1. hanja form^? of 벽 (“remote; out of the way”)
2. hanja form^? of 벽 (“uncommon; rare”)

Compounds

• 괴벽 (乖僻, goebyeok)
• 벽자 (僻字, byeokja, “a rare Chinese character”)
• 벽지 (僻地, byeokji)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

僻: Hán Nôm readings: tịch

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References

• Nom Foundation