佖

佖 U+4F56, 佖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F56 ← 何 [U+4F55] CJK Unified Ideographs 佗 → [U+4F57]

Translingual

Han character

佖 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人心竹 (OPH), four-corner 2329₀, composition ⿰亻必)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 98, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 512
• Dae Jaweon: page 208, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 139, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4F56

Chinese

simp. and trad.		佖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
泌	*mpriɡs, *priɡ, *bliɡ
秘	*mpriɡs
毖	*priɡs
閟	*priɡs
柲	*priɡs, *bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
鉍	*priɡs, *priɡ
邲	*priɡs, *bliɡ, *briɡ
覕	*pliŋs, *mbliːɡ
咇	*bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
苾	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
馝	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
飶	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
鴓	*mbliːɡ
鮅	*pliɡ, *bliɡ
必	*pliɡ
珌	*pliɡ
佖	*bliɡ, *briɡ
駜	*bliɡ, *briɡ
怭	*bliɡ
妼	*bliɡ
宓	*mriɡ, *mliɡ
樒	*mriɡ
密	*mriɡ
蔤	*mriɡ
滵	*mriɡ
蜜	*mliɡ
謐	*mliɡ
榓	*mliɡ
淧	*mliɡ
瑟	*smriɡ, *smriɡ
璱	*sriɡ
飋	*sriɡ
虙	*blɯɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bit¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bit¹
    • Yale: bīt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bid¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bjit, bit

Rime
Character	佖	佖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	眞 (48)	眞 (49)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	毗必切	房密切
Baxter	bjit	bit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪt̚/	/bˠiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bit̚/	/bᵚit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/bjet̚/	/biet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bit̚/	/bjit̚/
Li Rong	/biĕt̚/	/bjĕt̚/
Wang Li	/bĭĕt̚/	/bĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ĕt̚/	/bʱi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bí	bí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bat6	bat6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*bliɡ/, /*briɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	佖	佖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	578	588
Phonetic component	必	必
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	邲	弼
Old Chinese	/*bliɡ/	/*briɡ/

Definitions

佖

1. ^† dignified (according to Shuowen); undignified (according to later commentators)
2. (literary) to spread out; to fill

Japanese

Kanji

佖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. dignified
2. undignified; lacking in dignity
3. fill, line up

Readings

• Go-on: びち (bichi)
• Kan-on: ひつ (hitsu)
• Kun: ただしい (tadashii, 佖しい); ならぶ (narabu, 佖ぶ)
• Nanori: みつ (mitsu)

Korean

Hanja

佖 • (pil) (hangeul 필, revised pil, McCune–Reischauer p'il)

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