匕

See also: ヒ, ビ, ピ, 七, and 𠤎

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• In Taiwan, the upper right stroke of 匕 is written with a straight line (一) from left to right.
• In other regions, the upper right stroke of 匕 is written with a curve (丿) from the top right corner towards the middle left.

Han character

匕 (Kangxi radical 21, 匕+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 山竹 (UH), four-corner 2271₀, composition ⿺乚丿(GJKH) or ⿺乚一(T))

1. Kangxi radical #21, ⼔.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese_radical/匕
• 𡚧, 㠲, 𢖬, 𦘪, 朼, 𭭽, 𤆇, 牝, 䂗, 𥘇, 𥝓, 𭭾, 𫊤, 𧢶, 䚰, 𧺊, 䣥, 𨤽, 𮩲, 𩵏, 𪋼, 齔(𮮾/龀), 它, 皀, 壱, 匂, 尼, 旨

Further reading

Wikisource

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 152, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2570
• Dae Jaweon: page 342, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 261, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5315

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Chinese

trad.		匕
simp. #		匕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匕
Shang		Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
匕	*pilʔ
庀	*pʰelʔ
疕	*pʰelʔ, *pilʔ, *pʰrilʔ
朼	*pilʔ
牝	*bilʔ, *binʔ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐ (bi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei² / bei⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pí
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǐ
    • Wade–Giles: pi³
    • Yale: bǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bii
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bei² / bei⁶
    • Yale: béi / beih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei² / bei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi² / béi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³⁵/, /pei̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pí
    • Hakka Romanization System: bi`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bi³
    • Sinological IPA: /pi³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pí
    • Tâi-lô: pí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pi⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pi⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bi³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: pjijX

Rime
Character	匕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	卑履切
Baxter	pjijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/piX/
Shao Rongfen	/pjɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piX/
Li Rong	/piX/
Wang Li	/piX/
Bernard Karlgren	/piX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pijʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pilʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匕	匕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǐ	bǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ pjijX ›	‹ pjijX ›
Old Chinese	/*pijʔ/	/*pijʔ/
English	ladle, spoon	spoon
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	匕
Reading #	1/1
No.	484
Phonetic component	匕
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	匕
Old Chinese	/*pilʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 匕

1. (historical) a kind of spoon in ancient China
2. (literary) dagger
3. ^† arrow
4. ^‡ Original form of 比 (bǐ, “to compare; to contrast”).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 匕 – see 牝 (“(of an animal) female”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 牝).

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Japanese

Kanji

匕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: さじ (saji, 匕)

Compounds

• 匕首(あいくち) (aikuchi)
• 匕(ひ)首(しゅ) (hishu)

Noun

匕(さじ) • (saji) 

1. Alternative form of 匙: a spoon

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Korean

Hanja

匕 (eumhun 비수 비 (bisu bi))

1. spoon, ladle
2. dagger

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Vietnamese

Han character

匕: Hán Nôm readings: chủy/chuỷ

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