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Translingual
Han character
譬 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 尸十卜一口 (SJYMR), four-corner 70601, composition ⿱辟言)
- metaphor, simile, example
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1183, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36019
- Dae Jaweon: page 1646, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4026, character 8
- Unihan data for U+8B6C
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 嬖
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*peːɡs
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| 薜
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*beːɡs, *preːɡ
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| 鐾
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*beːɡs
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| 臂
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*peɡs
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| 譬
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*pʰeɡs
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| 避
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*beɡs
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| 檗
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*preːɡ
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| 擘
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*preːɡ
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| 糪
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*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
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| 掰
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*preːɡ
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| 繴
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*breːɡ, *peːɡ
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| 辟
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*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
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| 璧
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*peɡ
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| 鐴
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*peɡ
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| 躄
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*peɡ
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| 襞
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*peɡ
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| 僻
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*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
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| 癖
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*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
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| 廦
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*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
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| 擗
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*beɡ
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| 躃
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*beɡ
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| 闢
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*beɡ
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| 壁
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*peːɡ
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| 鼊
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*peːɡ
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| 霹
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*pʰeːɡ
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| 劈
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*pʰeːɡ
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| 澼
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*pʰeːɡ
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| 憵
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*pʰeːɡ
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| 甓
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*beːɡ
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| 鷿
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*beːɡ
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| 幦
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*mbeːɡ
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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譬
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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pì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ phjieH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*pʰek-s/
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| English
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example
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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譬
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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666
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Phonetic
component
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辟
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Rime
group
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賜
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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譬
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Old
Chinese
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/*pʰeɡs/
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Definitions
譬
- to make an analogy
- analogy; metaphor
- (literary) to inform; to explain
- (literary) to understand
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
譬
(Hyōgai kanji)
- illustrate
Readings
Korean
Hanja
譬 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)
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Vietnamese
Han character
譬: Hán Nôm readings: thí, thía, tỉ, ví
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