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See also:
U+4E15, 丕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E15

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 1, +4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一火一 (MFM), four-corner 10109, composition )

Derived characters

Further reading

Chinese Wikisource has digitized text of the Kangxi Dictionary entry for :
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Wikisource


  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 77, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30
  • Dae Jaweon: page 155, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 15, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4E15

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

𠦓
⿱不于

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character



References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰrɯ) : phonetic (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ') + semantic

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter phij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰiɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰji/
Li
Rong
/pʰji/
Wang
Li
/pʰi/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/pʰi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pei1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ phij ›
Old
Chinese
/*pʰrə/
English great

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 1007
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰrɯ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. large; grand
  2. to act on; to follow
  3. A particle.
  4. a surname

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of
  2. Used in 可丕丕 (“heart beating”).

Compounds

Japanese

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Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. large; grand

Readings

  • Go-on: (hi)
  • Kan-on: (hi)
  • Kun: おおきい (ōkii, 丕きい)おほきい (ofokii, 丕きい, historical)

Etymology

Kanji in this term

Hyōgai
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Proper noun

() (Hi

  1. An orthographic borrowing of the Chinese surname , Pi

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun (keul bi))

  1. hanja form? of (large; grand)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: phi ((phô)(bi)(thiết))[1][2][3][4][5]
: Nôm readings: vầy[1][2][3][6][4][5][7], vậy[1][2][3][4][5][7], phỉ[1][2][3][6], bậy[3][6][5], phơi[1], chăng[3], chẳng[3], phi[6]

  1. chữ Hán form of phi (large; grand).
  2. Nôm form of vầy (such; like this).
  3. Nôm form of vậy (so; thus).

References