庇

庇 U+5E87, 庇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E87 ← 庆 [U+5E86] CJK Unified Ideographs 庈 → [U+5E88]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

庇 (radical 53, 广+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈心心 (IPP) or X戈心心 (XIPP), four-corner 0021₁, composition ⿸广比)

References

• KangXi: page 343, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9239
• Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 874, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5E87

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		庇

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
梐	*piː, *biːʔ
狴	*piː
悂	*piː, *pʰi
螕	*piː
鎞	*piː
蓖	*piː
篦	*piː, *bis
批	*pʰiː
砒	*pʰiː
鈚	*pʰiː, *bi
磇	*pʰiː
媲	*pʰiːs
笓	*biː
膍	*biː, *bi
陛	*biːʔ
仳	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ
吡	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
比	*piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ
妣	*piʔ, *pis
秕	*piʔ
沘	*piʔ, *bi
枇	*piʔ, *bi, *bis
粊	*pris
庇	*pis
屁	*pʰis
琵	*bi
毗	*bi
貔	*bi
豼	*bi
蚍	*bi
芘	*bi, *bis
肶	*bi
魮	*bi
阰	*bi
坒	*bis, *biɡ
玭	*bin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pis): semantic 广 (“house that is built to depend on a cliff”) + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì, pì (bi⁴, pi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ, ㄆㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei³
• Min Nan (POJ): pì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: pi4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, common variant)⁺
    • Pinyin: pì
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei³
    • Yale: bei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pì
    • Tâi-lô: pì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pi²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pi¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /piɪ^H/

Rime
Character	庇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	必至切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/piH/
Shao Rongfen	/pjɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piH/
Li Rong	/piH/
Wang Li	/piH/
Bernard Karlgren	/piH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pij/, /*pij-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pis/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庇	庇
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pjij ›	‹ pjijH ›
Old Chinese	/*pij/	/*pij-s/
English	cover; protect	cover; protect
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	庇
Reading #	1/1
No.	519
Phonetic component	比
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	痹
Old Chinese	/*pis/

Definitions

庇

1. to cover; to shield; to shelter; to protect

Usage notes

Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciation pì.

Compounds

• 包庇 (bāobì)
• 外交庇護／外交庇护
• 大庇
• 庇佑 (bìyòu)
• 庇短
• 庇蔭／庇荫 (bìyìn)
• 庇護／庇护 (bìhù)

• 庇護權／庇护权 (bìhùquán)
• 庇賴／庇赖
• 庇身
• 庇陰／庇阴
• 廕庇
• 政治庇護／政治庇护 (zhèngzhì bìhù)
• 曲庇

• 祐庇
• 福庇
• 蔭庇／荫庇
• 覆庇之恩
• 託庇／托庇 (tuōbì)
• 護庇／护庇
• 門庇／门庇

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Japanese

Kanji

庇

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: おおう (oō); かばう (kabau, 庇う); ひさし (hisashi, 庇)

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Korean

Hanja

庇 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi)

1. cover, shield, shelter, protect

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Vietnamese

Han character

庇: Hán Nôm readings: tí

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