壁

See also: 璧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 辟 – an earthen wall.

Wikipedia

Han character

壁 (radical 32 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸十土 (SJG), four-corner 7010₄, composition ⿱辟土)

1. partition wall
2. walls of a house
3. (astronomy) the Wall, a Chinese constellation near Pegasus and Andromeda

See also

• 璧

References

• KangXi: page 240, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5516
• Dae Jaweon: page 479, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 494, character 8
• Unihan data for U+58C1

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		壁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bek³, bik¹, bik³
• Min Nan (POJ): piah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bek³, bik¹, bik³
    • Yale: bek, bīk, bik
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bek⁸, bik⁷, bik⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /pɛːk̚³/, /pɪk̚⁵/, /pɪk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piah
    • Tâi-lô: piah
    • IPA (Taipei): /piaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piaʔ³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (壁, reconstructed)
Character (壁), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 錫 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 北激切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pek̚/	/piek̚/	/pek̚/	/pek̚/	/pɛjk̚/	/piek̚/	/pɛk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (壁, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
壁								bì								‹ pek ›								/*C.pˤek/								house wall
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
壁					688					辟					錫					0					壁					/*peːɡ/

Definitions

壁

1. wall
   • 墙壁／牆壁 ("wall")
2. rampart
   • 壁垒／壁壘 ("rampart, barrier")
3. cliff
   • 峭壁 ("cliff, steep")

Proper noun

1. (astronomy) the Wall, a Chinese constellation. See 壁宿.

Hypernyms

• 玄武 (“The Black Turtle (constellation)”)
• 二十八宿 (“The Twenty-Eight Mansions (constellation)”)

Derived terms

• 壁宿

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Japanese

Kanji

壁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: へき (heki)
• Kun: かべ (kabe)

Noun

壁 (hiragana かべ, romaji kabe)

1. wall, barrier

Coordinate terms

• 床 (ゆか, yuka, “floor”)
• 天井 (てんじょう, tenjō, “ceiling”)

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Korean

Hanja

壁 (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune-Reischauer pyŏk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壁 (bích, bệch, bịch, vách)

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