壁

See also: 璧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peːɡ): semantic 土 ‎(“earth”) + phonetic 辟 ‎(OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) – an earthen wall.

Wikipedia

Han character

壁 (radical 32 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸十土 (SJG), four-corner 7010₄, composition ⿱辟土)

1. partition wall
2. walls of a house
3. (astronomy) the Wall, a Chinese constellation near Pegasus and Andromeda

See also

• 璧

References

• KangXi: page 240, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5516
• Dae Jaweon: page 479, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 494, character 8
• Unihan data for U+58C1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		壁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bek³, bik¹, bik³
• Min Nan (POJ): piah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bek³, bik¹, bik³
    • Yale: bek, bīk, bik
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bek⁸, bik⁷, bik⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /pɛːk̚³/, /pɪk̚⁵/, /pɪk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piah
    • Tâi-lô: piah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piaq
    • IPA (Taipei): /piaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piaʔ³²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 壁
Mandarin	Beijing	/pi⁵¹/
	Harbin	/pi⁵³/
	Tianjin	/pi⁵³/
	Jinan	/pi²¹/
	Qingdao	/pi⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/pi³¹²/
	Xi'an	/pi²¹/
	Xining	/pji⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/pi¹³/
	Lanzhou	/pi¹³/
	Ürümqi	/pi²¹³/
	Wuhan	/pi²¹³/
	Chengdu	/pi³¹/
	Guiyang	/pi²¹/
	Kunming	/pi³¹/
	Nanjing	/piʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/piəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/piəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/piʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/piəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/piɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/piəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/piəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/pi²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/piʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/pi⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/pi²⁴/ /pia²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/piɒ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/piɑʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/piak̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/piɑk̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pek̚⁵/
	Nanning	/pek̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/pik̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pik̚³²/ /piaʔ³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/piɛʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pi²⁴/ /pia²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/piaʔ²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ʔbek̚⁵/ /ʔbia⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /pek̚/▼

Rime
Character	壁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	北激切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/pek̚/
Wang Li	/piek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/piek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*C.pˤek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*peːɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	壁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pek ›
Old Chinese	/*C.pˤek/
English	house wall
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	壁
Reading #	1/1
No.	688
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	壁
Old Chinese	/*peːɡ/

Definitions

壁

1. wall
   • 牆壁／墙壁 (qiángbì, “wall”)
2. rampart
   • 壁壘／壁垒 (“rampart, barrier”)
3. cliff
   • 峭壁 (qiàobì, “cliff, steep”)
4. (astronomy) the Wall, a Chinese constellation. See 壁宿 (Bìxiù).

Hypernyms

• 玄武 (Xuánwǔ, “The Black Turtle (constellation)”)
• 二十八宿 (Èrshíbā Xiù, “The Twenty-Eight Mansions (constellation)”)

Derived terms

• 壁宿 (Bìxiù)

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Japanese

Kanji

壁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ひゃく (hyaku)
• Kan’on: へき (heki)
• Kun: かべ (kabe), とりで (toride)
• Nanori: かべ (kabe)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
壁
かべ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) かべ [kàbé] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠be̞]

Noun

壁 ‎(hiragana かべ, romaji kabe)

1. wall; barrier

Coordinate terms

• 床 ‎(yuka, “floor”)
• 天井 ‎(tenjō, “ceiling”)

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Korean

Hanja

壁 • ‎(byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune-Reischauer pyŏk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壁 (bích, bệch, bịch, vách)

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