疋

See also 匹, 正, and 辵

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (alternative)

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a foot 止 with a leg/thigh on top; leg originally a circle, now simplified to a line 一. Current form graphically a semi-cursive form of 正 (compare form seen in 定); compare also cursive 乏.

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

Han character

疋 (radical 103 疋+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓卜人 (NYO), four-corner 1780₁)

1. roll, bolt of cloth
2. foot

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/疋
• 楚

Related characters

• 正 乏

References

• KangXi: page 767, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21994
• Dae Jaweon: page 1177, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2749, character 1
• Unihan data for U+758B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

疋 (Yale pat1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

疋 (POJ phit, Guangdong p'it⁷, Hagfa Pinyim pid5)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

疋

Readings

• On: そ (so), しょ (sho), が (ga)
• Kun: あし (ashi), ひき (hiki)

Counter

疋 (hiragana ひき, romaji hiki)

1. Alternative form of 匹.

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Korean

Hanja

疋 (hangeul 필, 소, revised pil, so, McCune-Reischauer p'il, so, Yale phil, so)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

疋 (pinyin pǐ (pi3), Wade-Giles p'i³), pi1, shu1, ya3

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Vietnamese

Han character

疋 (sơ, sất, thất)