庳

庳 U+5EB3, 庳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EB3 ← 庲 [U+5EB2] CJK Unified Ideographs 庴 → [U+5EB4]

庳 U+2F88C, 庳 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F88C ← 庰 [U+2F88B] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 庶 → [U+2F88D]

Translingual

Han character

庳 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹田十 (IHWJ), four-corner 0024₆, composition ⿸广卑)

Derived characters

• 𢳋, 㯅, 𥼊, 𦸣, 𢋜, 螷, 蠯

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 347, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9359
• Dae Jaweon: page 657, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 889, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5EB3

• Unihan data for U+2F88C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		庳

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì, bēi (bi⁴, bei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ, ㄅㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bei
    • Wade–Giles: pei¹
    • Yale: bēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
    • Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pei⁵
    • Yale: péih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjieX

Rime
Character	庳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	便婢切
Baxter	bjieX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/bjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biə̆X/
Li Rong	/bieX/
Wang Li	/bǐeX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-peʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bjieX ›
Old Chinese	/*N-peʔ/
English	low, short
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	庳
Reading #	1/1
No.	395
Phonetic component	卑
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	婢
Old Chinese	/*beʔ/

Definitions

庳

1. (literary) low-lying
2. (literary) low; short
3. (historical dictionaries only) house low-lying in the middle

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bei¹
    • Yale: bēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

庳

1. only used in 有庳 (Yǒubì, “an ancient state in present-day north of Dao County, Hunan Province”)

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pí (pi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pí
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pí
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi²
    • Yale: pí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵/

Definitions

庳

1. (historical dictionaries only) female quail
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 毗 (pí, “to help; to assist”)

References

• “庳”, 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

庳

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: ひくい (hikui, 庳い)

Korean

Hanja

庳 (eum 비 (bi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

庳: Hán Nôm readings: ty

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References

• Nom Foundation