撇

撇 U+6487, 撇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6487 ← 撆 [U+6486] CJK Unified Ideographs 撈 → [U+6488]

Translingual

Han character

撇 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手火月大 (QFBK), four-corner 5804₀, composition ⿰扌敝)

References

• KangXi: page 453, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12678
• Dae Jaweon: page 803, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1945, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6487

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蔽	*peds
鄨	*peds, *ped
鷩	*peds, *ped
彆	*peds, *peːd
潎	*pʰeds, *pʰed
斃	*beds, *bed
敝	*beds, *bed
幣	*beds
弊	*beds
鱉	*ped
虌	*ped
憋	*ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳	*bed, *pʰeːd
撇	*pʰeːd
撆	*pʰeːd
暼	*pʰeːd
蹩	*beːd
襒	*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰeːd): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		撇
alternative forms		撆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piē, piě (pie¹, pie³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄝ, ㄆㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pit³
• Gan (Wiktionary): piet⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): phiet

  (Meixian, Guangdong): piêd⁵

• Min Dong (BUC): piék
• Min Nan (POJ): phiat / phoat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: piē
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄝ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pie
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pie
    • Wade–Giles: pʻieh1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰjɛ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: piě
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄝˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piee
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piě
    • Wade–Giles: pʻieh3
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰjɛ²¹⁴/

Note:

• piē - "discard, abandon, skim, throw away";
• piě - "left falling stroke".

Cantonese

• (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  • Jyutping: pit³
  • Yale: pit
  • Cantonese Pinyin: pit⁸
  • Guangdong Romanization: pid³
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːt̚³/

Gan

• (Nanchang)
  • Wiktionary: piet⁶
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiɛt̚⁵/

Hakka

• (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phiet
  • Hakka Romanization System: pied`
  • Hagfa Pinyim: piad⁵
  • Sinological IPA: /pʰi̯et̚²/
• (Meixian)
  • Guangdong: piêd⁵
  • Sinological IPA: /pʰiɛt̚¹/

Min Dong

• (Fuzhou)
  • Bàng-uâ-cê: piék
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiɛʔ²⁴/

Min Nan

• (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiat
  • Tâi-lô: phiat
  • Phofsit Daibuun: phiad
  • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰiɛt̚³²/
  • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiɛt̚⁵/
• (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phoat
  • Tâi-lô: phuat
  • Phofsit Daibuun: phoad
  • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰuat̚⁵/
  • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /pʰuat̚³²/

Note:

• phiat - literary;
• phoat - vernacular.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 撇
Mandarin	Beijing	/pʰiɛ²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/pʰiɛ⁴⁴/ ～油 /pʰiɛ²¹³/ ～石頭
	Tianjin	/pʰie²¹/
	Jinan	/pʰiə²¹³/
	Qingdao	/pʰiə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/pʰiɛ²⁴/ 一～ /pʰiɛ⁵³/ ～嘴
	Xi'an	/pʰiɛ²¹/ ～捺,～油 /pʰiɛ⁵³/ ～磚頭
	Xining	/pʰi⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/pʰie¹³/
	Lanzhou	/pʰiə⁴⁴²/ /pʰiə¹³/ ～捺
	Ürümqi	/pʰiɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/pʰie²¹³/
	Chengdu	/pʰie³¹/
	Guiyang	/pʰie²¹/
	Kunming	/pʰiɛ³¹/
	Nanjing	/pʰieʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/pʰiɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pʰiəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/pʰiʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/pʰiaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/pʰiɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/pʰiəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/pʰiəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/pʰi²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/pʰeʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/pʰiɛ⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/pʰie²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/pʰie²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/piɛʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰiet̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/pʰiet̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pʰit̚³/
	Nanning	/pʰit̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/pʰit̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pʰiat̚³²/ /pʰuat̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/pʰiɛʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pʰiɛ²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pʰiak̚²/ /pʰuaʔ²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/fit̚⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰeːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	撇
Reading #	1/1
No.	650
Phonetic component	敝
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	撆
Old Chinese	/*pʰeːd/
Notes	撆注或體

Definitions

撇

1. to discard; to abandon; to throw away
2. to skim
3. (Chinese calligraphy) a stroke that falls downwards towards the left (㇒)
4. (Hakka) to flog the buttocks; to spank; to smack lightly with palm

Coordinate terms

• (basic character strokes) 點, 橫, 豎, 提, 捺, 撇, 折, 鉤, 彎, 斜

Compounds

• 一撇
• 丟撇／丢撇
• 乾撇下／干撇下
• 假撇清
• 兩撇鬍／两撇胡
• 坡撇
• 左撇子 (zuǒpiězi)
• 平撇
• 打撇
• 打水撇兒／打水撇儿
• 披撇
• 拋撇／抛撇
• 拿三撇四
• 撇下
• 撇假
• 撇呆打墮／撇呆打堕
• 撇呵
• 撇嘴 (piězuǐ)

• 撇地
• 撇嵌
• 撇弔／撇吊
• 撇強／撇强
• 撇打
• 撇抗
• 撇撒
• 撇杖兒／撇杖儿
• 撇架子
• 撇棄／撇弃 (piēqì)
• 撇欠
• 撇步 (piěbù)
• 撇油
• 撇油兒／撇油儿
• 撇清
• 撇演
• 撇漾

• 撇火石
• 撇然
• 撇罷／撇罢
• 撇脫／撇脱
• 撇蘭／撇兰
• 撇號／撇号 (piěhào)
• 撇賴／撇赖
• 撇閃／撇闪
• 撇開／撇开 (piēkāi)
• 撇除 (piēchú)
• 撇風／撇风
• 撇點／撇点 (piědiǎn)
• 撇齒拉嘴／撇齿拉嘴
• 擣虛撇抗／捣虚撇抗
• 有撇斷／有撇断
• 蘭葉撇／兰叶撇
• 飄撇／飘撇 (“phiau-phiat”) (Min Nan)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		撇

Pronunciation

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): pêd⁵

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• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: pêd⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰɛt̚¹/

Definitions

撇

1. (Hakka) Used after a verb to indicate perfective aspect (action completion).

   食撇 [Meixian Hakka]  ―  sed⁶ pêd⁵ [Hakka Transliteration Scheme]  ―  to eat up

   • 𠊎尋撇你三四擺都尋唔到。 [Meixian Hakka, trad.]
     𠊎寻撇你三四摆都寻唔到。 [Meixian Hakka, simp.]

     From: 2015, 温昌衍 and 王秋珺 (editors), 《客家方言》, page 132

     ngai² qim² pêd⁵ n² sam¹ xi⁴ bai³ du¹ qim² m² dau³. [Hakka Transliteration Scheme]

     I have looked for you three, four times but could not find you.

2. (Hakka) Normally followed by 了 to mark a state change.

   電腦壞撇了。 / 电脑坏撇了。 [Meixian Hakka]  ―  tiên⁴ nau³ fai⁴ pêd⁵ ê². [Hakka Transliteration Scheme]  ―  The computer went wrong.

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Japanese

Kanji

撇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へつ (hetsu), へち (hechi), へい (hei)
• Kun: ぬぐう (nuguu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

撇: Hán Nôm readings: phét, phết, phệt, phiết

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References

• Nom Foundation