撇

Translingual

Han character

撇 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手火月大 (QFBK), four-corner 5804₀, composition ⿰扌敝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

simp. and trad.		撇

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piē, piě (pie¹, pie³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄝ, ㄆㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pit³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phiet
• Eastern Min (BUC): piék
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phiat / phoat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piē
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pie
    • Wade–Giles: pʻieh¹
    • Yale: pyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pie
    • Palladius: пе (pe)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piě
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piě
    • Wade–Giles: pʻieh³
    • Yale: pyě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piee
    • Palladius: пе (pe)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴/

Note:

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

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pit³
    • Yale: pit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: pid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phiet
    • Hakka Romanization System: pied`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: piad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰi̯et̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: piék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiɛʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (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 (Hokkien)	/pʰiat̚³²/ /pʰuat̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/pʰiɛʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/pʰiɛ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/pʰiak̚²/ /pʰuaʔ²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/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

(deprecated template usage) 撇

1. to discard; to abandon; to throw away
2. to skim
3. (Chinese calligraphy) a stroke that falls downwards towards the left (㇒)

1. (Hakka) to flog the buttocks; to spank; to smack lightly with palm

Coordinate terms

• (basic character strokes) 點／点 (diǎn), 橫／横, 豎／竖 (shù), 提, 捺 (nà), 撇, 折, 鉤／钩 (gōu), 彎／弯 (wān), 斜

Compounds

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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

(deprecated template usage) 撇 (phét, phết, phệt, phiết)

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References

• Nom Foundation