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Translingual
Han character
閉 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木竹 (ANDH), four-corner 77247, composition ⿵門才)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1330, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41222
- Dae Jaweon: page 1835, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4283, character 8
- Unihan data for U+9589
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 閉
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*piːds, *piːd
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| 閇
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*piːds
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Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 門 (“door”) + abbreviated 材 (“material; timber”).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pi-t (“to close”), which appears to be an areal word. Cognate with Burmese ပိတ် (pit, “to close”), as well as Thai ปิด (bpìt, “to close”).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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閉
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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bì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ pejH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*pˁi-s/
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| English
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close (v.); obstruct
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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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閉
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閉
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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| No.
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658
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660
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Phonetic
component
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閉
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閉
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Rime
group
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至
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質
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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閉
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㢼
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Old
Chinese
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/*piːds/
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/*piːd/
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Definitions
閉
- to shut; to close
- to obstruct; to block up
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
關 (“to close (a door, gate, etc.)”)
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
閉
(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)
- close, shut
Readings
- Go-on: はい (hai)
- Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
- On: へつ (hetsu)
- Kun: とじる (tojiru, 閉じる, Jōyō)←とぢる (todiru, 閉ぢる, historical)、とざす (tozasu, 閉ざす, Jōyō)、しめる (shimeru, 閉める, Jōyō)、しまる (shimaru, 閉まる, Jōyō)
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “to shut, close”): 開
Derived terms
Korean
Hanja
閉 • (pye, byeol) (hangeul 폐, 별, revised pye, byeol, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, Yale phyey, pyel)
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Vietnamese
Han character
閉: Hán Nôm readings: bế, bấy, bé
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