匹

See also: 疋

Translingual

Etymology

匹
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) Two pieces of cloth hanging.

Han character

匹 (radical 23 匸+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 尸金 (SC), four-corner 7171₁, composition ⿷匚儿)

1. bolt of cloth
2. counter for horses
3. counter for small animals (Japanese)

Derived characters

• 甚

See also

• 四

References

• KangXi: page 154, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2673
• Dae Jaweon: page 347, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 81, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5339
• Lawrence J. Howell, Hikaru Morimoto, "匹" (in Japanese/English), An Etymological Dictionary of Chinese Character Interpretations. URL accessed on 2014-03-16.

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		匹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pǐ (pi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pat¹
• Min Nan (POJ): phit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: pǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pii
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pat¹
    • Yale: pāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pat⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɐt̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phit
    • Tâi-lô: phit
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰit̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰit̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (匹, reconstructed)
Character (匹), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 滂 (2) Final: 質 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 譬吉切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pʰiɪt̚/	/pʰi̯ĕt̚/	/pʰiĕt̚/	/pʰit̚/	/pʰit̚/	/pʰĭĕt̚/	/pʰjet̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (匹, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
匹								pǐ								‹ phjit ›								/*pʰi[t]/								one of a pair
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
匹					9737					匹					質					1					匹					/*pʰid/

Counter

匹

1. measure word for horses, mules
2. measure word for rolls of cloth

Verb

匹

1. to match, to be equal

   匹配 to match; 匹敌 to be equal

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Japanese

Kanji

匹

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ひち (hichi)
• Kan’on: ひつ (hitsu)
• On (unclassified): ひき (hiki)
• Kun: たぐい (tagui), たぐう (taguu)

Counter

匹 (hiragana ひき, romaji -hiki)

1. small animals

   犬 (いぬ)が一匹 (いっぴき)います。

   inu ga ippiki imasu.

   There is one dog.

2. rolls of cloth
3. in the past, numbers of 銭 (せん) (sen)

Alternative forms

• 疋

See also

• 頭 (とう) (tō): counter for large animals

References

• 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, ISBN 4469021067

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Korean

Hanja

匹 (pil, mok) (hangeul 필, 목, revised pil, mok, McCune-Reischauer p'il, mok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

匹 (thất, sất, sơ, sớt, sứt, thớt)

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