璧

See also: 壁

Translingual

Han character

璧 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一土戈 (SJMGI), four-corner 7010₃, composition ⿱辟玉)

Derived characters

• 𬉭

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 742, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21269
• Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1142, character 16
• Unihan data for U+74A7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		璧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 璧
Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)	Libian (compiled in Qing)
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts	Clerical script

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

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	*beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	*breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟	*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦	*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *peɡ) : phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 玉 – a type of jade.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bik¹ / bik³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phiak / phek / piak / pek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bik¹ / bik³
    • Yale: bīk / bik
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bik⁷ / bik⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: big¹ / big³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɪk̚⁵/, /pɪk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiak
    • Tâi-lô: phiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phek
    • Tâi-lô: phik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pheg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piak
    • Tâi-lô: piak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pek
    • Tâi-lô: pik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɪk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: pjiek

Rime
Character	璧
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	必益切
Baxter	pjiek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piajk̚/
Li Rong	/piɛk̚/
Wang Li	/pĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*peɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	璧
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pjiek ›
Old Chinese	/*pek/
English	circular jade insignium
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	璧
Reading #	1/1
No.	676
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	辟
Old Chinese	/*peɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 璧

1. jade annulus

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Japanese

Kanji

璧

(Jōyō kanji)

1. piece of jade used in ancient China

Readings

• Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku)
• Kan-on: へき (heki, Jōyō)
• Kun: たま (tama, 璧)

Compounds

Compounds

• 完璧(かんぺき) (kanpeki)
• 圭璧(けいへき) (keiheki)
• 双璧(そうへき) (sōheki)

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with the visually similar 壁.

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Korean

Hanja

璧 • (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 璧 (bích, bệch, bịch, vách)

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