鼻根

Chinese

		nose	radical (chem.); root; basis
simp. and trad. (鼻根)		鼻	根

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bígēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˊ ㄍㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei⁶ gan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bígēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˊ ㄍㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bígen
    • Wade–Giles: pi²-kên¹
    • Yale: bí-gēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: byigen
    • Palladius: бигэнь (bigɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi³⁵ kən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei⁶ gan¹
    • Yale: beih gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei⁶ gan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi⁶ gen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯²² kɐn⁵⁵/

Noun

鼻根

1. top of the bridge of the nose, where it borders the forehead
2. (Buddhism) nose, one of the six sensory faculty

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鼻	根
び Grade: 3	こん Grade: 3
goon

Etymology

鼻 (“nose”) +‎ 根 (“indriya; root”), from Middle Chinese 鼻根

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) びこん [bìkóń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [bʲikõ̞ɴ]

Noun

鼻(び)根(こん) • (bikon) 

1. (Buddhism) the nose and the faculty of smelling, one of the 五根 (gokon, “five indriyia”) or 六根 (rokkon, “six indriya”)
2. (anatomy) the root of the nose; the nasal root

See also

• 鼻(び)根(こん)筋(きん) (bikonkin)