匹

See also: 疋

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 匹
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) Two pieces of cloth hanging.

Han character

匹 (radical 23 匸+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 尸金 (SC), four-corner 7171₁, composition ⿷匚儿)

1. bolt of cloth
2. counter for horses
3. counter for small animals (Japanese)

Derived characters

• 甚

See also

• 四

References

• KangXi: page 154, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2673
• Dae Jaweon: page 347, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 81, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5339
• Lawrence J. Howell, Hikaru Morimoto (accessed 2014-03-16), “匹”, in An Etymological Dictionary of Chinese Character Interpretations^[1] (in Japanese/English)

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		匹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pǐ (pi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pat¹
• Min Nan (POJ): phit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: pǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pii
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pat¹
    • Yale: pāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pat⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɐt̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phit
    • Tâi-lô: phit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phid
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰit̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰit̚³²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 匹
Mandarin	Beijing	/pʰi²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/pʰi⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/pʰi¹³/
	Jinan	/pʰi²¹³/
	Qingdao	/pʰi⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/pʰi⁴²/
	Xi'an	/pʰi⁵³/
	Xining	/pʰji⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/pʰi⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/pʰi³¹/
	Ürümqi	/pʰi⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/pʰi²¹³/
	Chengdu	/pʰi³¹/
	Guiyang	/pʰi²¹/
	Kunming	/pʰi⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/pʰiʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/pʰiəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pʰiəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/pʰiʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/pʰiəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/pʰiɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/pʰiəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/pʰiəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/pʰi²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/pʰi³¹/
	Tunxi	/pʰi⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/pʰi²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/pʰi²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/pʰiʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰit̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/pʰit̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pʰɐt̚⁵/
	Nanning	/pʰɐt̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/pʰɐt̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pʰit̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/pʰɛiʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pʰi²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pʰik̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/fit̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰiɪt̚/▼

Rime
Character	匹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	譬吉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰit̚/
Li Rong	/pʰiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*pʰi[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰid/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ phjit ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰi[t]/
English	one of a pair
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	匹
Reading #	1/1
No.	9737
Phonetic component	匹
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	匹
Old Chinese	/*pʰid/

Counter

匹

1. Measure word for horses and mules.
2. Measure word for rolls of cloth.

Verb

匹

1. to match, to be equal

   匹配  ―  pǐpèi  ―  to match

   匹敌  ―  pǐdí  ―  to be equal

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Japanese

Kanji

匹

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ひち (hichi)
• Kan’on: ひつ (hitsu)
• On (unclassified): ひき (hiki)
• Kun: たぐい (tagui), たぐう (taguu)

Counter

匹 ‎(hiragana ひき, romaji -hiki)

1. small animals

   犬 (いぬ)が一匹 (いっぴき)います。

   Inu ga ippiki imasu.

   There is one dog.

2. rolls of cloth
3. in the past, numbers of 銭 (せん) ‎(sen)

Alternative forms

• 疋

See also

• 頭 (とう) ‎(tō): counter for large animals

References

• 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, ISBN 4469021067

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Korean

Hanja

匹 • ‎(pil, mok) (hangeul 필, 목, revised pil, mok, McCune-Reischauer p'il, mok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

匹 (thất, sất, sơ, sớt, sứt, thớt)

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