鼻

See also 自

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	鼻
simplified	鼻
traditional	鼻

Alternative forms

The form of this character differs slightly between China and Japan:

in China: 鼻,

in Japan: 鼻

That is, in China the bottom is roughly 兀 (strokes T-junction), while in Japan the bottom is 廾 (strokes cross).

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 自 (“nose”) + phonetic 畀.

Han character

鼻 (radical 209 鼻+0, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹山田一中 (HUWML), four-corner 2644₆)

1. nose
2. first
3. KangXi radical 209

Usage notes

自 has lost its sense as “nose” (now means “self”), and 鼻 is now used to mean “nose”.

References

• KangXi: page 1530, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48498
• Dae Jaweon: page 2066, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4779, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9F3B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鼻 (Yale bei6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

鼻 (POJ phì, Guangdong p'i⁵; p'i⁶ [Hailu], p'i³ [Bao'an], Hagfa Pinyim pi4)

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

Noun

鼻 (hiragana はな, romaji hana)

1. a nose

Etymology

From pointing to ones nose to refer to oneself.

Pronoun

鼻 (hiragana はな, romaji hana)

1. first-person personal male pronoun; I, me

Derived terms

• 鼻様 (hanasama)

Kanji

鼻 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. nose

Readings

• On: び (bi), ひ (hi)
• Kun: はな (hana)

Compounds

鼻音 鼻孔 鼻腔 鼻骨 鼻祖

鼻母音 鼻梁 鼻息 鼻歌 鼻声 鼻血

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Korean

Hanja

鼻 (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鼻 (pinyin bí (bi2), Wade-Giles pi²)

Compounds

• 鼻翅儿
• 鼻笛
• 鼻窦
• 鼻化元音
• 鼻尖, 鼻尖儿
• 鼻孔
• 鼻梁, 鼻梁儿
• 鼻牛儿
• 鼻旁窦
• 鼻腔
• 鼻青脸肿
• 鼻儿
• 鼻饲
• 鼻涕
• 鼻涕虫
• 鼻洼子
• 鼻窝
• 鼻息
• 鼻血
• 鼻烟, 鼻烟儿
• 鼻炎
• 鼻翼
• 鼻音
• 鼻渊
• 鼻韵母
• 鼻中隔
• 鼻子
• 鼻子眼儿
• 鼻祖

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Middle Chinese

Han character

鼻 (bhì)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鼻 (tị)