閇

See also: 閉

閇 U+9587, 閇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9587 ← 閆 [U+9586] CJK Unified Ideographs 閈 → [U+9588]

Translingual

Han character

閇 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日弓一卜 (ANMY), composition ⿵門下)

1. shut, close
2. obstruct, block up

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1330, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41220
• Dae Jaweon: page 1835, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4284, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9587

Chinese

simp. and trad.		閇

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
閉	*piːds, *piːd
閇	*piːds

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai³

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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: bai³
    • Yale: bai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: pejH

Rime
Character	閇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	博計切
Baxter	pejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/peiH/
Pan Wuyun	/peiH/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛjH/
Li Rong	/peiH/
Wang Li	/pieiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*piːds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	閇
Reading #	1/1
No.	659
Phonetic component	閉
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	閉
Old Chinese	/*piːds/
Notes	俗閉字

Definitions

閇

1. alternative form of 閉 / 闭 (bì, “to shut; to close; to obstruct”)

Japanese

Kanji

閇

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. alternative form of 閉

Readings

• Go-on: はい (hai)
• Kan-on: へい (hei)
• Kun: とじる (tojiru, 閇じる)、とざす (tozasu, 閇ざす)、しめる (shimeru, 閇める)、しまる (shimaru, 閇まる)、たてる (tateru, 閇てる)