憋

憋 U+618B, 憋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-618B ← 憊 [U+618A] CJK Unified Ideographs 憌 → [U+618C]

Translingual

Han character

憋 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火大心 (FKP), four-corner 9733₀, composition ⿱敝心)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 402, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11197
• Dae Jaweon: page 742, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2342, character 3
• Unihan data for U+618B

Chinese

trad.		憋
simp. #		憋
alternative forms		鱉／鳖 obsolete

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蔽	*peds
鄨	*peds, *ped
鷩	*peds, *ped
彆	*peds, *peːd
潎	*pʰeds, *pʰed
斃	*beds, *bed
敝	*beds, *bed
幣	*beds
弊	*beds
鱉	*ped
虌	*ped
憋	*ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳	*bed, *pʰeːd
撇	*pʰeːd
撆	*pʰeːd
暼	*pʰeːd
蹩	*beːd
襒	*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ped, *pʰed, *peːd): phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biē (bie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bit³

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piat / pih / peh / peeh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biē
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bie
    • Wade–Giles: pieh¹
    • Yale: byē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bie
    • Palladius: бе (be)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: bit³
    • Yale: bit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piat
    • Tâi-lô: piat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛt̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pih
    • Tâi-lô: pih
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /piʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peh
    • Tâi-lô: peh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /peʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /peʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peeh
    • Tâi-lô: peeh
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛʔ³²/

Note:

• piat - literary;
• pih/peh - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: pjiet, phjiet

Rime
Character	憋	憋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	薛 (81)	薛 (81)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	并列切	芳滅切
Baxter	pjiet	phjiet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇt̚/	/pʰiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛt̚/	/pʰiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæt̚/	/pʰjæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piat̚/	/pʰiat̚/
Li Rong	/piɛt̚/	/pʰiɛt̚/
Wang Li	/pĭɛt̚/	/pʰĭɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛt̚/	/pʰi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bie	pie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bit3	pit3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ped/, /*pʰed/, /*peːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	憋	憋	憋
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	640	643	648
Phonetic component	敝	敝	敝
Rime group	月	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷩	瞥	㢼
Old Chinese	/*ped/	/*pʰed/	/*peːd/

Definitions

憋

1. to hold; to suppress inner feelings; to hold back inner feelings

   憋笑  ―  biē xiào  ―  to hold back one's laughter

   憋尿  ―  biēniào  ―  to hold in urine

   憋氣／憋气  ―  biēqì  ―  to hold one's breath

   他早就憋了一肚子的火。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Tā zǎojiù biē le yīdùzi de huǒ. [Pinyin]

   He had suppressed a lot of anger for a long time.

2. to suffocate

   差點憋死／差点憋死  ―  chādiǎn biē sǐ  ―  almost suffocate to death

3. (obsolete) impatient

Compounds

• 㑳憋憋 / 㑇憋憋
• 刁決古憋 / 刁决古憋
• 劣憋
• 古憋
• 憋不住
• 憋劣
• 憋十
• 憋噪
• 憋尿 (biēniào)
• 憋屈 (biēqu)
• 憋悶 / 憋闷
• 憋憋懆懆
• 憋憋焦焦
• 憋懆
• 憋拗
• 憋支支
• 憋死貓 / 憋死猫
• 憋氣 / 憋气 (biēqì)
• 憋著勁兒 / 憋著劲儿
• 歪憋
• 焦憋
• 窩憋 / 窝憋
• 胸悶憋氣 / 胸闷憋气
• 脾憋

Japanese

Kanji

憋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へつ (hetsu)、へち (hechi)
• Kun: せつかち (setsukachi)

Korean

Hanja

憋 (eumhun 악할 별 (akhal byeol))

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Vietnamese

Han character

憋: Hán Nôm readings: biệt

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