別字

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See also: 别字

Chinese

Etymology 1

		other; distinguish; contrary other; distinguish; contrary; difficult; awkward; leave; depart; separate; classify; another; do not; must not; to pin	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (別字)		別	字
simp. (别字)		别	字

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biézì

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄝˊ ㄗˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bit⁶ zi⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pia̍t-lī / pia̍t-jī
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸biq-zy

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biézì
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄝˊ ㄗˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biézìh
  - Wade–Giles: pieh²-tzŭ⁴
  - Yale: byé-dz̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: byetzyh
  - Palladius: бецзы (beczy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛ³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bit⁶ zi⁶
  - Yale: biht jih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁹ dzi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bid⁶ ji⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚² t͡siː²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pia̍t-lī
  - Tâi-lô: pia̍t-lī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piadli
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛt̚²⁴⁻² li⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /piɛt̚⁴⁻³² li²²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pia̍t-jī
  - Tâi-lô: pia̍t-jī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piadji
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛt̚¹²¹⁻²¹ d͡zi²²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸biq-zy
  - MiniDict: bih^入 zy
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵biq-zr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /biɪʔ¹¹ zz̩²³/

Noun

別字

typo; misspelt word or character
variant or alternative form of a word or character
(dated) another name; alias

Synonyms

(typo):

白字 (báizì)
錯別字／错别字 (cuòbiézì)
錯字／错字 (cuòzì)

(another name):

偏名 (Hokkien, Hakka)
別名／别名 (biémíng)
別號／别号 (biéhào) (dated)
外號／外号 (wàihào)
渾名／浑名 (húnmíng)
綽號／绰号
花名 (huāmíng)
諢名／诨名 (hùnmíng)
諢號／诨号 (hùnhào)
體號／体号 (Hokkien)

Etymology 2

		other; distinguish; contrary other; distinguish; contrary; difficult; awkward; leave; depart; separate; classify; another; do not; must not; to pin	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (別字)		別	字
simp. (别字)		别	字

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piat-lī

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piat-lī
  - Tâi-lô: piat-lī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piatli
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛt̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/

Verb

別字

(Quanzhou Hokkien) to perform glyphomancy; to tell fortunes by disassembling Chinese characters

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 測字 (“to perform glyphomancy”)

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		測字, 拆字, 相字
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	測字兒
	Taiwan	測字, 拆字
	Harbin	拆字
	Singapore	測字
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	拆字兒
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	拆字兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	拆字兒
	Xi'an	測字 †
	Xining	測字
	Xuzhou	測字兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	測字 †
	Lanzhou	測字 †
	Ürümqi	測字
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	測字 †
	Wuhan	測字 †
	Guiyang	測字 †
	Liuzhou	測字
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	測字
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	測字 †
Cantonese	Guangzhou	拆字
Cantonese	Dongguan	測字
Gan	Nanchang	測字
	Lichuan	測字
	Pingxiang	測字
Hakka	Meixian	拆字
Hakka	Yudu	測字 †
Huizhou	Jixi	拆字
Jin	Taiyuan	測字 †
Jin	Xinzhou	測字 †
Northern Min	Jian'ou	測字
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	測字
Southern Min	Xiamen	拆字
	Quanzhou	別字
	Zhangzhou	拆字
	Tainan	拆字
	Singapore (Hokkien)	測字
Puxian Min	Putian	測字
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	測字
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	測字
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	測字
	Xianyou	測字
	Xianyou (Fengting)	測字
	Xianyou (Youyang)	測字
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	拆字
Wu	Shanghai	拆字
	Shanghai (Chongming)	拆字
	Suzhou	拆字
	Danyang	測字 †
	Hangzhou	測字 † (new-style)
	Ningbo	測字 †
	Wenzhou	拆字
	Jinhua	測字 †
Xiang	Changsha	測字 † (new-style)
Xiang	Loudi	測字 †
Note	† - 測字 and 拆字 are homophonous

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 別字 – see 捌字 (“to learn to read; to know how to read”). (This term is a variant form of 捌字).

Japanese

Kanji in this term
別	字
べつ Grade: 4	じ Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

別(べつ)字(じ) • (betsuji)

different character
同形(どうけい)別字(べつじ)
dōkei betsuji
heteronymous character; unrelated character with an identical shape

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