媲

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媲 U+5AB2, 媲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB2
← 媱
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 媳 →

Translingual

Han character

媲 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女竹田心 (VHWP), four-corner 46411, composition ⿰女𣬉)

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6571
  • Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5AB2

Chinese

trad. 媲
simp. # 媲
alternative forms 嫓 ancient

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (比) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梐 *piː, *biːʔ
狴 *piː
悂 *piː, *pʰi
螕 *piː
鎞 *piː
蓖 *piː
篦 *piː, *bis
批 *pʰiː
砒 *pʰiː
鈚 *pʰiː, *bi
磇 *pʰiː
媲 *pʰiːs
笓 *biː
膍 *biː, *bi
陛 *biːʔ
仳 *pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ
吡 *pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ
紕 *be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
比 *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ
妣 *piʔ, *pis
秕 *piʔ
沘 *piʔ, *bi
枇 *piʔ, *bi, *bis
粊 *pris
庇 *pis
屁 *pʰis
琵 *bi
毗 *bi
貔 *bi
豼 *bi
蚍 *bi
芘 *bi, *bis
肶 *bi
魮 *bi
阰 *bi
坒 *bis, *biɡ
玭 *bin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰiːs) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 𣬉 ().

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 媲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 匹詣切
Baxter phejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰeiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰeiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰɛjH/
Li
Rong 		/pʰeiH/
Wang
Li 		/pʰieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pʰieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		pì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		pai3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 媲
Reading # 1/1
No. 503
Phonetic
component 		比
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		媲
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰiːs/

Definitions

媲

  1. to marry, to match
  2. to equal
  3. to compare

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

媲

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): へい (hei)、ひ (hi)、び (bi)
  • Kun: つれあい (tsureai)

Vietnamese

Han character

媲: Hán Nôm readings: tỉ

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References

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