臂
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Translingual
Han character
臂 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十月 (SJB), four-corner 70227, composition ⿱辟月)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 996, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29944
- Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2119, character 8
- Unihan data for U+81C2
Chinese
| trad. | 臂 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 臂 | |
Glyph origin
| 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 *peɡs) : phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 肉 (“meat; flesh”).
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p-jak (“arm”), whence Lepcha (pek), Limbu (phuk-bek), Tibetan ཕྱག (phyag, “hand; arm”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bei3
- Northern Min (KCR): bĭ
- Eastern Min (BUC): bié
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, vernacular)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bì
- Wade–Giles: pi4
- Yale: bì
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
- Palladius: би (bi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, literary)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bèi
- Wade–Giles: pei4
- Yale: bèi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bey
- Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /peɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ˙ㄅㄟ
- Tongyong Pinyin: be̊i
- Wade–Giles: pei5
- Yale: bei
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .bei
- Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /b̥eɪ̯/
- (Standard Chinese, vernacular)+
Note: bei - only used in 胳臂 (gēbei).
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: bei3
- Yale: bei
- Cantonese Pinyin: bei3
- Guangdong Romanization: béi3
- Sinological IPA (key): /pei̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bĭ
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi²⁴/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: bié
- Sinological IPA (key): /piɛ²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: pjieH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*pek-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*peɡs/
Definitions
臂
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 胳膊 (“arm”)
Compounds
- 一臂之力 (yībìzhīlì)
- 下臂
- 上臂 (shàngbì)
- 三頭六臂 / 三头六臂 (sāntóuliùbì)
- 三頭臂肌 / 三头臂肌
- 九折臂
- 二頭臂肌 / 二头臂肌
- 交臂
- 交臂失之 (jiāobìshīzhī)
- 交臂屈膝
- 使臂使指
- 係臂 / 系臂
- 前臂 (qiánbì)
- 割臂以盟
- 割臂盟
- 割臂盟公
- 力臂 (lìbì)
- 失之交臂 (shīzhījiāobì)
- 失諸交臂 / 失诸交臂
- 奮臂 / 奋臂
- 如臂使指 (rúbìshǐzhǐ)
- 展臂
- 巴臂
- 引臂
- 怒臂當車 / 怒臂当车
- 懸臂 / 悬臂
- 手臂 (shǒubì)
- 把臂
- 扼臂
- 折臂三公
- 把臂入林
- 把臂而談 / 把臂而谈
- 振臂 (zhènbì)
- 振臂一呼 (zhènbìyīhū)
- 捋臂將拳 / 捋臂将拳
- 捋臂揎拳
- 振臂高呼
- 掉臂
- 掉臂不顧 / 掉臂不顾
- 搖臂 / 摇臂
- 攘臂
- 攘臂一呼
- 攘臂而起
- 斷臂說書 / 断臂说书
- 機臂 / 机臂
- 沒巴臂 / 没巴臂
- 灼臂
- 猿臂
- 票臂
- 紾臂 / 𬘝臂
- 繫臂之寵 / 系臂之宠
- 纏臂金 / 缠臂金
- 胳臂
- 膀臂 (bǎngbì)
- 臂助 (bìzhù)
- 臂彎 / 臂弯 (bìwān)
- 臂手
- 臂擱 / 臂搁
- 臂有四肘
- 臂膀 (bìbǎng)
- 臂膊 (bìbó)
- 臂跑
- 臂釧 / 臂钏
- 臂章 (bìzhāng)
- 臂香
- 虎臂
- 虎體猿臂 / 虎体猿臂 (hǔ tǐ yuán bì)
- 螳臂當車 / 螳臂当车
- 蟲臂鼠肝 / 虫臂鼠肝
- 袒臂
- 護臂 / 护臂
- 豹頭猿臂 / 豹头猿臂 (bàotóuyuánbì)
- 賣胳臂 / 卖胳臂
- 通臂拳
- 金臂人
- 釧臂 / 钏臂
- 錯臂 / 错臂
- 長臂猿 / 长臂猿 (chángbìyuán)
- 長臂蝦 / 长臂虾
- 雙臂 / 双臂 (shuāngbì)
- 鼠肝蟲臂 / 鼠肝虫臂
- 齧臂 / 啮臂
- 齧臂之交 / 啮臂之交
- 齧臂盟 / 啮臂盟
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
| Kanji in this term |
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| 臂 |
| ひじ Hyōgai |
| kun'yomi |
Noun
- Alternative spelling of 肘
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 臂 (MC pjieH). Recorded as Middle Korean 비〯 (pǐ) (Yale: pi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
Hanja
Compounds
Compounds
References
Vietnamese
Han character
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