庇

Translingual

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)

1. cover, shield, shelter, protect

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		庇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

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

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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: bei³
    • Yale: bei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei³
    • IPA ^(key): /pei̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pì
    • Tâi-lô: pì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pix
    • IPA (Taipei): /pi¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /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

• 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

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Compounds

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

• 庇護權／庇护权
• 庇賴／庇赖
• 庇身
• 庇陰／庇阴
• 廕庇
• 政治庇護／政治庇护
• 曲庇

• 祐庇
• 福庇
• 蔭庇／荫庇
• 覆庇之恩
• 託庇／托庇
• 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

• Goon: ひ (hi)
• Kan’on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: おおう (oou), かばう (kabau), ひさし (hisashi)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

庇 (tí)

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