馝

馝 U+999D, 馝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-999D ← 馜 [U+999C] CJK Unified Ideographs 馞 → [U+999E]

Translingual

Han character

馝 (Kangxi radical 186, 香+5, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹日心竹 (HAPH), four-corner 2360₀, composition ⿰香必)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1429, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44528
• Dae Jaweon: page 1955, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4423, character 10
• Unihan data for U+999D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		馝

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
泌	*mpriɡs, *priɡ, *bliɡ
秘	*mpriɡs
毖	*priɡs
閟	*priɡs
柲	*priɡs, *bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
鉍	*priɡs, *priɡ
邲	*priɡs, *bliɡ, *briɡ
覕	*pliŋs, *mbliːɡ
咇	*bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
苾	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
馝	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
飶	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
鴓	*mbliːɡ
鮅	*pliɡ, *bliɡ
必	*pliɡ
珌	*pliɡ
佖	*bliɡ, *briɡ
駜	*bliɡ, *briɡ
怭	*bliɡ
妼	*bliɡ
宓	*mriɡ, *mliɡ
樒	*mriɡ
密	*mriɡ
蔤	*mriɡ
滵	*mriɡ
蜜	*mliɡ
謐	*mliɡ
榓	*mliɡ
淧	*mliɡ
瑟	*smriɡ, *smriɡ
璱	*sriɡ
飋	*sriɡ
虙	*blɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bliːɡ, *bliɡ): semantic 香 (“fragrant”) + phonetic 必 (OC *pliɡ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bit⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pih

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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: bit⁶
    • Yale: biht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pih
    • Tâi-lô: pih
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /piʔ³²/

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• Middle Chinese: bjit, bet

Rime
Character	馝	馝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	毗必切	蒲結切
Baxter	bjit	bet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪt̚/	/bet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bit̚/	/bet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/bjet̚/	/bɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bit̚/	/bɛt̚/
Li Rong	/biĕt̚/	/bet̚/
Wang Li	/bĭĕt̚/	/biet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ĕt̚/	/bʱiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bí	bié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bat6	bit6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bliːɡ/, /*bliɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	馝	馝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	562	576
Phonetic component	必	必
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蹩	邲
Old Chinese	/*bliːɡ/	/*bliɡ/

Definitions

馝

1. (literary) strong fragrance
2. alternative form of 苾 (bì, “fragrant; aromatic”)

Compounds

• 各馝 (kok-pih) (Min Nan)
• 馝馞 (bìbó)

Japanese

Kanji

馝

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ひつ (hitsu)、びち (bichi)、へつ (hetsu)、べち (bechi)
• Kun: かおり (kaori)

Korean

Hanja

馝 • (pil) (hangeul 필, revised pil, McCune–Reischauer p'il, Yale phil)

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