甓

甓 U+7513, 甓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7513 ← 甒 [U+7512] CJK Unified Ideographs 甔 → [U+7514]

Translingual

Han character

甓 (Kangxi radical 98, 瓦+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一女弓 (SJMVN), four-corner 7071₇, composition ⿱辟瓦)

1. glazed tiles, bricks

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 752, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21609
• Dae Jaweon: page 1160, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1433, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7513

Chinese

trad.		甓
simp. #		甓

Glyph origin

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pì (pi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pik¹ / bik¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phia̍h

---

• 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 / bik¹
    • Yale: pīk / bīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pik⁷ / bik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: pig¹ / big¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɪk̚⁵/, /pɪk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phia̍h
    • Tâi-lô: phia̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiah
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiaʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiaʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰiaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiaʔ⁴/

---

• Middle Chinese: bek

Rime
Character	甓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	扶歷切
Baxter	bek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/bɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/bek̚/
Wang Li	/biek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bik6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	甓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pì
Middle Chinese	‹ bek ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁek/
English	tile, brick
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	甓
Reading #	1/1
No.	698
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甓
Old Chinese	/*beːɡ/

Definitions

甓

1. (Hokkien) a type of tile or brick used for covering the roof

Compounds

• 熟甓
• 瓴甓
• 甓剸 / 甓𰄞
• 甓社湖
• 甓社珠
• 甓頭 / 甓头
• 生甓
• 陶侃運甓 / 陶侃运甓

References

• “甓”, 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

甓

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

• On (unclassified): へき (heki)
• Kun: かわら (kawara)

Korean

Hanja

甓 • (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

甓: Hán Nôm readings: bích, bịch

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.