和璧

Chinese

		mix together; peace; harmony mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm	piece of jade with hole in center
simp. and trad. (和璧)		和	璧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Hébì

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Hébì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Hébì
    • Wade–Giles: Ho²-pi⁴
    • Yale: Hé-bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Herbih
    • Palladius: Хэби (Xɛbi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ pi⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦuɑ  piᴇk̚/

Rime
Character	和	璧
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)	清 (123)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	戸戈切	必益切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuɑ/	/piᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuɑ/	/piɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑ/	/piæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwa/	/piajk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑ/	/piɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑ/	/pĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuɑ/	/pi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huó	bi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wo4	bik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ˤoj  pek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːl  peɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	和	璧
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ hwa ›	‹ pjiek ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ˁoj/	/*pek/
English	harmonious	circular jade insignium
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	和	璧
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	4932	676
Phonetic component	禾	辟
Rime group	歌	錫
Rime subdivision	3	0
Corresponding MC rime	和	辟
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːl/	/*peɡ/

Proper noun

和璧

1. Short for 和氏璧 (Héshìbì, “Mr. He's jade”).