貔

貔 U+8C94, 貔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C94 ← 貓 [U+8C93] CJK Unified Ideographs 貕 → [U+8C95]

Translingual

Han character

貔 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹田心 (BHHWP), four-corner 2621₁, composition ⿰豸𣬉)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1202, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36606
• Dae Jaweon: page 1664, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3916, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8C94

Chinese

trad.		貔
simp. #		貔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (比) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
梐	*piː, *biːʔ
狴	*piː
悂	*piː, *pʰi
螕	*piː
鎞	*piː
蓖	*piː
篦	*piː, *bis
批	*pʰiː
砒	*pʰiː
鈚	*pʰiː, *bi
磇	*pʰiː
媲	*pʰiːs
笓	*biː
膍	*biː, *bi
陛	*biːʔ
仳	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ
吡	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
比	*piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ
妣	*piʔ, *pis
秕	*piʔ
沘	*piʔ, *bi
枇	*piʔ, *bi, *bis
粊	*pris
庇	*pis
屁	*pʰis
琵	*bi
毗	*bi
貔	*bi
豼	*bi
蚍	*bi
芘	*bi, *bis
肶	*bi
魮	*bi
阰	*bi
坒	*bis, *biɡ
玭	*bin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bi) : semantic 豸 + phonetic 𣬉 ().

Etymology

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan དབྱི (dbyi, “lynx”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Schuessler also sees possible cognacy with byi in Tibetan པི་ཤི (pi shi) and བྱི་ལ (byi la), though byi might be derived from Indic (cf. Hindi बिल्ला (billā) < Sanskrit बिडाल (biḍāla); see there for ultimate non-Indic etymology); even so, byi is still possibly native if པི་ཤི (pi shi)'s shi was from earlier *zhi and cognate with 狸 (OC *rɯ) (ibid.).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pí (pi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pî
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶bi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pí
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pí
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi²
    • Yale: pí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pei⁴
    • Yale: pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pî
    • Tâi-lô: pî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pi²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pi²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi²³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶bi
    • MiniDict: bi^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bi²³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjij

Rime
Character	貔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	房脂切
Baxter	bjij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/bi/
Shao Rongfen	/bjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bi/
Li Rong	/bi/
Wang Li	/bi/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ij/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bi/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	貔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pí
Middle Chinese	‹ bjij ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ij/
English	kind of wild cat
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	貔
Reading #	1/1
No.	527
Phonetic component	比
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𣬈
Old Chinese	/*bi/

Definitions

貔

1. ^† panther-like feline

   • 實墉實壑，實畝實籍，獻其貔皮，赤豹黃羆。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     实墉实壑，实亩实籍，献其貔皮，赤豹黄罴。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shí yōng shí hè, shí mǔ shí jí, xiàn qí pí pí, chì bào huáng pí. [Pinyin]

     Making strong his walls, and deep his moats,
     Laying out his fields, regulating his revenues,
     Presenting his skins of the panthers,
     With those of the red leopards and the yellow brown bears.

   • 勖哉夫子！尚桓桓如虎、如貔、如熊、如羆！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     勖哉夫子！尚桓桓如虎、如貔、如熊、如罴！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 7^th – 4^th centuries BCE

     Xù zāi fūzǐ! Shàng huánhuán rú hǔ, rú pí, rú xióng, rú pí! [Pinyin]

     Exert yourselves, officers — you shall be martial and imposing! Be like tigers, like panthers, like black bears, like brown bears!

Compounds

• 虎貔
• 貔子 (pízi)
• 貔子窩港／貔子窝港
• 貔虎
• 貔貅 (píxiū)

 

Japanese

Kanji

貔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. brave heraldic beast

Readings

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)

Compounds

• 貔(ヒ)貅(キュウ) (Hikyū, “Pixiu”)

Korean

Hanja

貔 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

1. fox, leopard, panther

Vietnamese

Han character

貔: Hán Nôm readings: tì

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