和璧

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Chinese

mix together; peace; harmony
mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm
 
piece of jade with hole in centre
simp. and trad.
(和璧)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (33) (1)
Final () (95) (123)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter hwa pjiek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuɑ/ /piᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuɑ/ /piɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɑ/ /piæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwa/ /piajk̚/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɑ/ /piɛk̚/
Wang
Li
/ɣuɑ/ /pĭɛk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣuɑ/ /pi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huó bi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wo4 bik1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwa › ‹ pjiek ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁoj/ /*pek/
English harmonious circular jade insignium

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 4932 676
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoːl/ /*peɡ/

Proper noun

和璧

  1. Short for 和氏璧 (Héshìbì, “Mr. He's jade”).