避

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避 U+907F, 避
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Translingual

Han character

避 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+13, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜尸口十 (YSRJ), four-corner 30304, composition ⿺辶辟)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1266, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39163
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1763, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3891, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+907F

Chinese

trad. 避
simp. # 避
2nd round simp. ⿰辶比

Glyph origin

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 *beɡs) : semantic 辶 (“to walk”) + phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ).

Pronunciation

Note: phiah - also written as 辟.
Rime
Character 避
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 毗義切
Baxter bjieH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/biᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/biɛH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/bjɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/biə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/bieH/
Wang
Li 		/bǐeH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/bʱie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bei6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 避
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bjieH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ek-s/
English avoid

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 避
Reading # 1/1
No. 667
Phonetic
component 		辟
Rime
group 		賜
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		避
Old
Chinese 		/*beɡs/

Definitions

避

  1. to avoid; to escape; to dodge
  2. to prevent; to keep away

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 避 (“to avoid; to dodge”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 避
Northeastern Mandarin Singapore 避
Cantonese Guangzhou 避
Hong Kong 避
Taishan 避
Southern Min Taipei 閃 GT
Penang (Hokkien) 閃
Singapore (Hokkien) 閃
Note GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)
  • (to prevent):

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 避
Kyūjitai
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避󠄁
避+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
避󠄃
避+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

避

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to avoid

Readings

Compounds

References

  1. ^ “避”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “避”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎ (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN
  3. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2133 (paper), page 1118 (digital)
  4. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 1232 (paper), page 629 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

避 (eumhun 피할 피 (pihal pi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

避: Hán Nôm readings: tị

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