僻

Translingual

Han character

僻 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人尸口十 (OSRJ), four-corner 2024₁, composition ⿰亻辟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 118, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1166
• Dae Jaweon: page 250, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 229, character 5
• Unihan data for U+50FB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		僻
alternative forms		𠈳 𠒱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僻
Small seal script s05842 Transcribed ancient scripts L28539 L28540 L28541
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	*beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	*breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟	*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦	*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pì (pi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pik¹ / bui⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phiah / phiak / phek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pì
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pì
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi⁴
    • Yale: pì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pih
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pik¹ / bui⁶
    • Yale: pīk / buih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pik⁷ / bui⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: pig¹ / bui⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɪk̚⁵/, /puːi̯²²/

Note:

• pik1 - colloquial;
• bui6 - variant.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiah
    • Tâi-lô: phiah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiaq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰiaʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiak
    • Tâi-lô: phiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phek
    • Tâi-lô: phik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pheg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪk̚³²/

Note:

• phiah - vernacular;
• phiak/phek - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: phjiek, phek

Rime
Character	僻	僻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	芳辟切	普擊切
Baxter	phjiek	phek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiæk̚/	/pʰɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰiajk̚/	/pʰɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/pʰiɛk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭɛk̚/	/pʰiek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ɛk̚/	/pʰiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pi	pi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pik1	pik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰeɡ/, /*pʰeːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	僻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pì
Middle Chinese	‹ phjiek ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰek/
English	perverse
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	僻	僻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	680	697
Phonetic component	辟	辟
Rime group	錫	錫
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	僻	霹
Old Chinese	/*pʰeɡ/	/*pʰeːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 僻

1. ^† to avoid; to evade
2. ^† unorthodox
3. remote; out of the way

   偏僻  ―  piānpì  ―  remote; out of the way

   荒僻  ―  huāngpì  ―  desolate

4. uncommon; rare

   生僻  ―  shēngpì  ―  uncommon; rare (characters, words, etc.)

   僻字  ―  pìzì  ―  rare characters

5. eccentric; odd; peculiar

   孤僻  ―  gūpì  ―  peculiar; eccentric

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00247
• “僻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

僻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へき (heki); ひ (hi); へい (hei)
• Kun: ひがむ (higamu, 僻む)

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Korean

Hanja

僻 • (byeok, pi) (hangeul 벽, 피, revised byeok, pi, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk, p'i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

僻: Hán Nôm readings: tịch

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References

• Nom Foundation