腓

腓 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月中一卜 (BLMY), four-corner 7121₁, composition ⿰⺼非)

1. calf (leg)
2. avoid
3. be ill
4. wither

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 987, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29629
• Dae Jaweon: page 1439, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2087, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8153

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯl, *bɯls) : semantic 肉 (“flesh”) + phonetic 非 (OC *pɯl).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pej (“leg; thigh; foot”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo phei (“foot; leg”).

腓

1. calf; the back of the leg below the knee
2. (literary, of plants) to die from diseases; to shrivel; to wilt

   • 大漠窮秋塞草腓，孤城落日鬬兵稀。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     大漠穷秋塞草腓，孤城落日斗兵稀。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 8th century, Gao Shi (高適),《燕歌行》, translated by Stephen Owen

     Dàmò qióngqiū sàicǎo féi, gūchéng luòrì dòubīng xī.

     On the great desert, autumn’s end, border plants sicken and die; A lone fortress in setting sunlight where troops doing battle grow fewer.

3. (obsolete) to protect

   • 誕寘之隘巷，牛羊腓字之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     诞寘之隘巷，牛羊腓字之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Dàn zhì zhī àixiàng, niú yáng féi zì zhī.

     He was placed in a narrow lane,
     But the sheep and oxen protected him with loving care.

腓

1. Used in transcription.
2. (Protestantism) Short for 腓立比書／腓立比书 (Féilìbǐshū, “the book of Philippians”).

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. calf

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: こむら (komura, 腓)

• (Tokyo) こむら (Heiban – )^[1]
• (Tokyo) こむら (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

腓(こむら) • (komura) 

1. (anatomy) calf

• 脹脛(ふくらはぎ) (fukurahagi)

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

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