焷

焷 U+7137, 焷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7137 ← 然 [U+7136] CJK Unified Ideographs 焸 → [U+7138]

Translingual

Han character

焷 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火竹田十 (FHWJ), composition ⿰火卑)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 675, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19151
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2209, character 16
• Unihan data for U+7137

Chinese

simp. and trad.		焷

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

  (Pinyin): pí (pi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): bì

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pei⁴
    • Yale: pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjie

Rime
Character	焷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符支切
Baxter	bjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/bjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biə̆/
Li Rong	/bie/
Wang Li	/bǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pei4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*be/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	焷
Reading #	1/1
No.	391
Phonetic component	卑
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	陴
Old Chinese	/*be/

Definitions

焷

1. to use fire for cooking food
2. (Eastern Min) to add some water or liquid to a hot pan while cooking

References

• 冯爱珍 [Feng, Aizhen], editor (1998), “焷”, in 福州方言词典 [Dictionary of the Fuzhou Dialect] (in Chinese), Nanjing: 江苏教育出版社 (Jiangsu Educational Press), →ISBN., page 1.