蓽

See also: 荜

Translingual

Han character

蓽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿田廿十 (TWTJ), four-corner 4450₄, composition ⿱艹畢)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1053, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31745
• Dae Jaweon: page 1515, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3279, character 2
• Unihan data for U+84FD

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Chinese

trad.		蓽
simp.		荜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
畢	*pid
蓽	*pid
篳	*pid
蹕	*pid
韠	*pid
滭	*pid
鷝	*pid
熚	*pid
彃	*pid
縪	*pid
饆	*pid
鏎	*pid
罼	*pid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹

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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: bat¹
    • Yale: bāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pjit

Rime
Character	蓽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	卑吉切
Baxter	pjit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pit̚/
Li Rong	/piĕt̚/
Wang Li	/pĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bat1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pid/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蓽
Reading #	1/1
No.	615
Phonetic component	畢
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	必
Old Chinese	/*pid/
Notes	同篳

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蓽

1. (literary) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 篳／筚 (bì, “wicker or bamboo fence”).
2. ^† A kind of bean.

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Japanese

Kanji

蓽

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. species of bean
2. piper longtum

Readings

• On (unclassified): ひつ (hitsu), ひち (hichi)
• Kun: まめ (mame)

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Korean

Hanja

蓽 • (pil) (hangeul 필, revised pil, McCune–Reischauer p'il, Yale phil)

1. species of bean
2. piper longtum