肺

Translingual

Han character

肺 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+4 in Chinese, 肉+5 in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 月十月 (BJB) or 月卜中月 (BYLB), four-corner 7522₇, composition ⿰月市(GHTKV) or ⿰月巿(J))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 976, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29328
• Dae Jaweon: page 1428, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2047, character 2
• Unihan data for U+80BA

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Chinese

trad.		肺
simp. #		肺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
沛	*poːbs, *pʰoːbs
芾	*poːbs, *pubs, *pub
伂	*poːbs
霈	*pʰoːbs
旆	*boːbs
肺	*pʰobs
杮	*pʰobs
巿	*pub

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰobs) : semantic ⺼ + phonetic 巿 (OC *pub).

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p-wap (“lung”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 肺

1. (anatomy) lung

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pèi (pei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pui³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pèi
    • Wade–Giles: pʻei⁴
    • Yale: pèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pey
    • Palladius: пэй (pɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰeɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pui³
    • Yale: pui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pui³
    • Guangdong Romanization: pui³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuːi̯³³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 肺

1. Only used in 肺肺.

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

肺

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ほ (ho)
• Kan-on: はい (hai, Jōyō)
• Kun: まごころ (magokoro)

Compounds

• 肺(はい)臓(ぞう) (haizō)

Etymology 1

• pukupukusi → ɸukuɸusi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸukuɸukuɕi]

Noun

肺(ふくふくし) • (fukufukushi) 

1. (anatomy) lung
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 68:

     心肺 々音辨 々訓布々久々之

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 2, page 35:

     肺 白虎通云 音廢 布久布久之 [...] 金之精也 色白 [...] 肺藏也 [...]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
肺
はい Grade: 6

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hai]

Noun

肺(はい) • (hai) 

1. (anatomy) lung

Synonyms

• 肺(はい)臓(ぞう) (haizō)

References

• Unknown (794) Yoshinori Kobayashi, editor, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (Kojisho Ongi Shūsei) (in Japanese), volume 1, Kyūko Shoin, published 1978, →ISBN.
• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
• Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja

肺 (eumhun 허파 폐 (heopa pye))

Hanja

肺 (eumhun 성할 폐 (seonghal pye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 肺 (phế, phổi, chị)

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