庇

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庇 U+5E87, 庇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E87
← 庆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 庈 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

庇 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈心心 (IPP) or 難戈心心 (XIPP), four-corner 00211, composition ⿸广比)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 343, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9239
  • Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 874, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5E87

Chinese

trad. 庇
simp. # 庇

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 *pis) : semantic 广 (“house that is built to depend on a cliff”) + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bi̿ - literary;
  • bṳ̿ - vernacular (“to bury”).
Rime
Character 庇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 必至切
Baxter pjijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/piɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/piH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/piH/
Li
Rong 		/piH/
Wang
Li 		/piH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/piH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bei3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 庇 庇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bì bì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjij › ‹ pjijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pij/ /*pij-s/
English cover; protect cover; protect

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 庇
Reading # 1/1
No. 519
Phonetic
component 		比
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		痹
Old
Chinese 		/*pis/

Definitions

庇

  1. to cover; to shield; to shelter; to protect
  2. (Northern Min) to bury

Usage notes

Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciation pì.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 埋 (“to bury”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 埋
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 埋
Taiwan 埋
Singapore 埋
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 埋
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 埋
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 埋
Wuhan 埋
Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 埋
Hefei 埋
Cantonese Guangzhou 埋, 壅
Hong Kong 埋, 壅
Yangjiang 埋
Gan Nanchang 埋
Hakka Meixian 埋
Jin Taiyuan 埋
Northern Min Jian'ou 庇
Eastern Min Fuzhou 埋
Southern Min Xiamen 坮, 埋
Quanzhou 坮
Zhangzhou 坮
Tainan 坮
Chaozhou 坮, 䃭
Shantou 坮, 䃭
Jieyang 坮, 䃭
Leizhou 坮
Haikou 坮
Wu Suzhou 埋
Wenzhou 塸
Xiang Changsha 埋
Shuangfeng 埋, 聾

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

庇

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ひ (hi)
  • Kan-on: ひ (hi)
  • Kun: おおう (ōu)、かばう (kabau, 庇う)、ひさし (hisashi, 庇)

Korean

Hanja

庇 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi)

  1. cover, shield, shelter, protect

Vietnamese

Han character

庇: Hán Nôm readings: tí

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