蔽

See also: 芘

Translingual

Han character

蔽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿火月大 (TFBK), four-corner 4424₈, composition ⿱艹敝(GHTJK))

Derived characters

• 虌, 𮜣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1056, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31888
• Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3277, character 19
• Unihan data for U+853D

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Chinese

trad.		蔽
simp. #		蔽
alternative forms		芘 second round simplified

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *peds) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pè

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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: bai³
    • Yale: bai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pè
    • Tâi-lô: pè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pe²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pe⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjiejH

Rime
Character	蔽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	必袂切
Baxter	pjiejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piajH/
Li Rong	/piɛiH/
Wang Li	/pĭɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pe[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*peds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pjiejH ›
Old Chinese	/*pe[t]-s/
English	cover (v.)
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	蔽
Reading #	1/1
No.	627
Phonetic component	敝
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	蔽
Old Chinese	/*peds/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蔽

1. to cover; to hide; to conceal
2. to summarize; to sum up

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Japanese

Kanji

蔽

(Jōyō kanji)

1. cover, hide, conceal

Readings

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• Kun: おおう (ōu, 蔽う)

Compounds

Compounds

• 隠蔽(いんぺい) (inpei): concealment
• 掩蔽(えんぺい) (enpei): concealment, masking, cloaking
• 遮蔽(しゃへい) (shahei): shield (from sunlight, or human eyes)

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Korean

Hanja

蔽 • (pye, byeol, bul) (hangeul 폐, 별, 불, revised pye, byeol, bul, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, pul, Yale phyey, pyel, pul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔽 (tế)

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