璧

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See also: 壁
璧 U+74A7, 璧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-74A7
← 璦
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 璨 →

Translingual

Han character

璧 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一土戈 (SJMGI), four-corner 70103, composition ⿱辟玉)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 742, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1142, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+74A7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 璧
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 璧
Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming) Libian (compiled in Qing)
Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts Clerical script
Characters in the same phonetic series (辟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嬖 *peːɡs
薜 *beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾 *beːɡs
臂 *peɡs
譬 *pʰeɡs
避 *beɡs
檗 *preːɡ
擘 *preːɡ
糪 *preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰 *preːɡ
繴 *breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟 *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧 *peɡ
鐴 *peɡ
躄 *peɡ
襞 *peɡ
僻 *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖 *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦 *pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗 *beɡ
躃 *beɡ
闢 *beɡ
壁 *peːɡ
鼊 *peːɡ
霹 *pʰeːɡ
劈 *pʰeːɡ
澼 *pʰeːɡ
憵 *pʰeːɡ
甓 *beːɡ
鷿 *beːɡ
幦 *mbeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *peɡ): phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 玉 – a type of jade.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 璧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 必益切
Baxter pjiek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/piᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/piɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/piajk̚/
Li
Rong 		/piɛk̚/
Wang
Li 		/pĭɛk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bik1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 璧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjiek ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pek/
English 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 璧
Reading # 1/1
No. 676
Phonetic
component 		辟
Rime
group 		錫
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		辟
Old
Chinese 		/*peɡ/

Definitions

璧

  1. jade annulus

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

璧

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. piece of jade used in ancient China

Readings

  • Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku)
  • Kan-on: へき (heki, Jōyō)
  • Kun: たま (tama, 璧)

Compounds

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with the visually similar 壁.

Etymology

Kanji in this term
璧
へき
Grade: S
kan'on
 璧 on Japanese Wikipedia

Noun

璧(へき) • (heki) 

  1. annular jade disc of ritual significance in ancient China

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 璧 (MC pjiek). Recorded as Middle Korean 벽〮 (pyék) (Yale: pyék) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

璧 (eumhun 구슬 벽 (guseul byeok))

  1. hanja form? of 벽 (“jade”)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

璧: Hán Nôm readings: bích, bệch, bịch, vách

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