帷

Translingual

Han character

帷 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中月人土 (LBOG), four-corner 4021₄, composition ⿰巾隹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 333, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8954
• Dae Jaweon: page 639, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 745, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5E37

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		帷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 帷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
匯	*ɢʷrɯːlʔ, *kʰʷriːl
擓	*kʰʷriːl
淮	*ɡʷriːl
睢	*qʰʷel, *sqʰʷil, *qʰʷi, *qʰʷils
嶉	*sqʷi
趡	*skʰʷilʔ
踓	*skʰʷilʔ, *ɢʷilʔ
雖	*sqʰʷi
濉	*sqʰʷi
倠	*qʰʷi
婎	*qʰʷil, *qʰʷils
蓶	*ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
維	*ɢʷi
惟	*ɢʷi
唯	*ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
濰	*ɢʷi
琟	*ɢʷil
鷕	*ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ
帷	*ɢʷril
鵻	*sɢʷinʔ, *tjul

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wéi (wei²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ûi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wéi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wéi
    • Wade–Giles: wei²
    • Yale: wéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wei
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wai⁴
    • Yale: wàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûi
    • Tâi-lô: uî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ui²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ui²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ui²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ui²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hwij

Rime
Character	帷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	洧悲切
Baxter	hwij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦjwi/
Li Rong	/ɣjui/
Wang Li	/ɣwi/
Bernard Karlgren	/wi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wéi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɢʷrij/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷril/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	帷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wéi
Middle Chinese	‹ hwij ›
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷrij/
English	curtain
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	帷
Reading #	1/1
No.	12861
Phonetic component	唯
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	帷
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷril/
Notes	古文從匚韋聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 帷

1. tent
2. curtain, screen

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Japanese

Kanji

帷

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: い (i)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kan-on: い (i)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kun: とばり (tobari, 帷)

Compounds

• 帷子(かたびら) (katabira)
• 経(きょう)帷子(かたびら) (kyōkatabira)
• 鎖(くさり)帷子(かたびら) (kusarikatabira)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
帷
い Hyōgai
on'yomi

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 帷 (MC hwij).

Noun

帷(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. a curtain or hanging that covers all sides

Derived terms

• 帷(い)を下(くだ)す (i o kudasu)

Affix

帷(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. hanging; curtain

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 帷(い)幄(あく) (iaku)
• 帷(い)幄(あく)上(じょう)奏(そう) (iakujōsō)
• 帷(い)帳(ちょう) (ichō)
• 帷(い)幕(ばく) (ibaku)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
帷
とばり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 帷 – see the following entry.

【とばり】 [noun] 帳, 帷, 幄, 幌: curtain Alternative spellings 帳, 幄, 幌

(This term, 帷, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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Korean

Hanja

帷 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

帷 (duy)