砒

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砒 U+7812, 砒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7812
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 砓 →

Translingual

Han character

砒 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一口心心 (MRPP), four-corner 11610, composition ⿰石比)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 828, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24068
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1242, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2419, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7812

Chinese

trad. 砒
simp. # 砒
alternative forms 磇

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 *pʰiː) : semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 砒
Reading # 1/1
No. 500
Phonetic
component 		比
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		磇
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰiː/
Notes 廣韻作磇集韻此爲正

Definitions

砒

  1. Used in 砒霜 (pīshuāng).
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of 砷 (shēn)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

砒

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. arsenic

Readings

  • Go-on: はい (hai)
  • Kan-on: へい (hei)
  • Kan’yō-on: ひ (hi)

Compounds

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. arsenic
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