筆

See also: 笔

Translingual

Han character

筆 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹中手 (HLQ), four-corner 8850₇)

References

• KangXi: page 882, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25987
• Dae Jaweon: page 1310, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2970, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7B46

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Chinese

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trad.		筆
simp.		笔

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 聿 (“writing brush”)

A hand holding a brush 聿. The bamboo 竹 refers to the material of traditionals Chinese brushs.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐ (bi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): pit
• Min Dong (BUC): bék
• Min Nan (POJ): pit
• Wu (WT Romanisation): piq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: pih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bii
    • IPA ^(key): /pi²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹
    • Yale: bāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pit
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /pit̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bék
    • IPA ^(key): /peiʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pit
    • Tâi-lô: pit
    • IPA (Taipei): /pit̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pit̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: piq (T4)
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɪʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (筆, reconstructed)
Character (筆), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 質 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 鄙密切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/piɪt̚/	/pi̯ĕt̚/	/piĕt̚/	/pit̚/	/pit̚/	/pĭĕt̚/	/pjet̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (筆, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
筆								bǐ								‹ pit ›								/*p.[r]ut (borrowed as *prut from Qín dialect)/								writing brush
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
筆					15975					聿					物					2					筆					/*prud/

Definitions

筆

1. writing brush
2. pen, pencil

   • 你有筆嗎，記一下這個電話號碼。 [MSC, trad.]

     你有笔吗，记一下这个电话号码。 [MSC, simp.]

     Nǐ yǒu bǐ ma, jì yīxià zhè ge diànhuà hàomǎ. [Pinyin]

     Do you have a pen to write this phone number?

3. stroke (of Chinese characters)

   • 你這個字寫錯了，這裡少了一筆。 [MSC, trad.]

     你这个字写错了，这里少了一笔。 [MSC, simp.]

     Nǐ zhè ge zì xiě cuò le, zhèlǐ shào le yī bǐ. [Pinyin]

     The character you have miswritten lacks one stroke here.

4. ^† to write, to compose
5. Classifier for sums of money, deals.

Compounds

Derived terms

• 下筆／下笔

• 代筆／代笔

• 伏筆／伏笔

• 執筆／执笔

• 敗筆／败笔

• 毛筆／毛笔

• 筆劃／笔划

• 筆名／笔名

• 筆墨／笔墨

• 筆尖／笔尖

• 筆法／笔法

• 筆直／笔直

• 筆答／笔答

• 筆算／笔算

• 筆記／笔记

• 筆記本／笔记本

• 筆試／笔试

• 筆跡／笔迹

• 筆順／笔顺

• 粉筆／粉笔

• 紙筆／纸笔

• 蠟筆／蜡笔

• 親筆／亲笔

• 鉛筆／铅笔

• 鋼筆／钢笔

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (筆):

• Japanese: 筆 (ひつ, hitsu)
• Korean: 필 (筆, pil)
• Vietnamese: bút (筆)

Others

• → Japanese: ふで (fude)
• → Korean: 붓 (but)

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Kanji

筆

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ひつ (hitsu)
• Kun: ふで (fude)

Compounds

筆跡 (ひっせき, hisseki) 筆記 (ひっき, hikki)

筆脈 (ひつみゃく, hitsumyaku) 執筆 (しっぴつ, shippitsu)

筆順 (ひつじゅん, hitsujun)

Noun

筆 (hiragana ふで, romaji fude)

1. a writing brush; a painting brush; a pen
2. a thing written by certain person; calligraphy

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Korean

Hanja

筆 (pil) (hangeul 필, McCune-Reischauer p'il, Yale phil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筆 (bút)

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