誹

See also: 诽

誹 U+8AB9, 誹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AB9 ← 誸 [U+8AB8] CJK Unified Ideographs 誺 → [U+8ABA]

Translingual

Han character

誹 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口中一卜 (YRLMY), four-corner 0161₁, composition ⿰訁非)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1165, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35601
• Dae Jaweon: page 1631, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3985, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8AB9

Chinese

trad.		誹
simp.		诽

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
啡	*pʰɯːlʔ
排	*brɯːl
俳	*brɯːl
輫	*brɯːl, *buːl
悲	*prɯl
棑	*breː, *brɯːls
輩	*puːls
裴	*buːl, *bɯl
徘	*buːl
琲	*buːlʔ
痱	*buːlʔ, *pɯds, *bɯl, *bɯls
非	*pɯl
扉	*pɯl
緋	*pɯl
猆	*pɯl
斐	*pɯl, *pʰɯlʔ
馡	*pɯl
騑	*pɯl, *pʰɯl
誹	*pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls
餥	*pɯl, *pɯlʔ
匪	*pɯlʔ
棐	*pɯlʔ
蜚	*pɯlʔ, *bɯls
篚	*pɯlʔ
榧	*pɯlʔ
鯡	*pɯls
霏	*pʰɯl
菲	*pʰɯl, *pʰɯlʔ, *bɯls
婔	*pʰɯl
裶	*pʰɯl
悱	*pʰɯlʔ
奜	*pʰɯlʔ
腓	*bɯl, *bɯls
陫	*bɯlʔ
屝	*bɯls
厞	*bɯls
翡	*bɯls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls) : semantic 言 + phonetic 非 (OC *pɯl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fěi (fei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fei²
• Eastern Min (BUC): hūi
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): húi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fěi
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fěi
    • Wade–Giles: fei³
    • Yale: fěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feei
    • Palladius: фэй (fɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fei²
    • Yale: féi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: féi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fei̯³⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hūi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hui³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: húi
    • Tâi-lô: huí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hui⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pj+j, pj+jH

Rime
Character	誹	誹
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	微 (21)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	甫微切	方味切
Baxter	pj+j	pj+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉi/	/pʉiH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷɨi/	/pʷɨiH/
Shao Rongfen	/piuəi/	/piuəiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puj/	/pujH/
Li Rong	/piuəi/	/piuəiH/
Wang Li	/pĭwəi/	/pĭwəiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pwe̯i/	/pwe̯iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēi	fèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fei1	fei3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pə[j]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯl/, /*pɯlʔ/, /*pɯls/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	誹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fěi
Middle Chinese	‹ pj+j ›
Old Chinese	/*pə[j]/
English	slander
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	誹	誹	誹
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	3083	3089	3092
Phonetic component	非	非	非
Rime group	微	微	微
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	猆	匪	沸
Old Chinese	/*pɯl/	/*pɯlʔ/	/*pɯls/

Definitions

誹

1. to slander; to defame
2. (literary) to pick faults; to criticize

Compounds

• 口頭誹謗／口头诽谤
• 腹誹／腹诽 (fùfěi)
• 腹誹心謗／腹诽心谤
• 誹言／诽言
• 誹語／诽语 (fěiyǔ)
• 誹誹／诽诽
• 誹謗／诽谤 (fěibàng)
• 誹謗之木／诽谤之木
• 誹謗罪／诽谤罪 (fěibàngzuì)

 

Japanese

Kanji

誹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. criticism, slander
2. Alternative spelling of 俳 (hai): actor; humor, haikai, play

Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan’yō-on: はい (hai)
• Kun: そしり (soshiri, 誹り); そしる (soshiru, 誹る)

Compounds

Compounds

• 誹諧(はいかい) (haikai)
• 誹風(はいふう) (haifū)
• 誹毀(ひき) (hiki)
• 誹議(ひぎ) (higi)
• 誹刺(ひし) (hishi)
• 誹笑(ひしょう) (hishō)
• 誹謗(ひぼう) (hibō)
• 面従(めんじゅう)腹(ふく)誹(ひ) (menjūfukuhi)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

誹: Hán Việt readings: phỉ

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