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U+4FF3, 俳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FF3

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 9, +8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人中一卜 (OLMY), four-corner 21211, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 106, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 726
  • Dae Jaweon: page 226, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 174, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4FF3

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

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 *brɯːl) : semantic (person) + phonetic (OC *pɯl).

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter beaj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen
/bɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bəɨj/
Li
Rong
/bɛi/
Wang
Li
/bɐi/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/bʱăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pái
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
paai4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 3065
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*brɯːl/

Definitions

  1. actor
  2. vaudeville show
  3. (literary) humorous; funny

Compounds

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. Only used in 俳佪.

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 170.

Japanese

Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. actor
  2. haiku

Readings

  • Go-on: (be)
  • Kan-on: はい (hai, Jōyō)
  • Kun: わざおぎ (wazaogi, )

Korean

Hanja

(bae) (hangeul , revised bae, McCune–Reischauer pae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: bài[1]

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References