琶

琶 U+7436, 琶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7436 ← 琵 [U+7435] CJK Unified Ideographs 琷 → [U+7437]

Translingual

Han character

琶 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土日山 (MGAU), four-corner 1171₇, composition ⿱玨巴)

Derived characters

• 潖, 𣚒, 𧑡

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 736, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21081
• Dae Jaweon: page 1147, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1119, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7436

Chinese

trad.		琶
simp. #		琶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
巴	*praː
芭	*praː
笆	*praː, *braːʔ
豝	*praː
鈀	*praː, *pʰraː
吧	*praː, *pʰraː
蚆	*praː, *pʰraː
疤	*praː
把	*praːʔ
爸	*praːs, *baʔ
弝	*praːs
靶	*praːs
葩	*pʰraː
舥	*pʰraː
妑	*pʰraː
帊	*pʰraːs
琶	*braː
爬	*braː
杷	*braː, *braːs, *braːs
跁	*braːʔ, *braːs
耙	*braːs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pá (pa²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paa⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pê / pêe

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bê⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pá
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pá
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa²
    • Yale: pá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: par
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: paa⁴
    • Yale: pàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pa⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pê
    • Tâi-lô: pê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pee
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /pe²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pêe
    • Tâi-lô: pêe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bê⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pê
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pe⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bae

Rime
Character	琶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	蒲巴切
Baxter	bae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ba/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨ/
Li Rong	/ba/
Wang Li	/ba/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	paa4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*braː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	琶
Reading #	1/1
No.	116
Phonetic component	巴
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	爬
Old Chinese	/*braː/
Notes	釋名作枇杷

Definitions

琶

1. Only used in 琵琶.
2. a kind of method of playing pipa

Compounds

• 反彈琵琶／反弹琵琶
• 彈琵琶／弹琵琶
• 琶洲塔
• 琵琶 (pípá)
• 琵琶別抱／琵琶别抱 (pípábiébào)
• 琵琶湖 (Pípáhú)
• 琵琶舊語／琵琶旧语
• 琵琶蟲／琵琶虫
• 琵琶行
• 琵琶襟
• 琵琶記／琵琶记
• 琵琶調／琵琶调
• 琵琶譜／琵琶谱
• 琵琶錄／琵琶录
• 琵琶骨 (pípagǔ)
• 琵琶魚／琵琶鱼 (pípáyú)
• 琵琶鮫／琵琶鲛
• 琶音 (páyīn)

 

Japanese

Kanji

琶

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. Lute

Readings

• Go-on: べ (be)
• Kan-on: は (ha)

Compounds

Compounds

• 琵琶(びわ) (biwa): biwa
• 琵琶湖(びわこ) (Biwako): Lake Biwa

Korean

Hanja

琶 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

琶: Hán Việt readings: túc
琶: Nôm readings: ngọc

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