譬

譬 U+8B6C, 譬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B6C ← 譫 [U+8B6B] CJK Unified Ideographs 譭 → [U+8B6D]

Translingual

Han character

譬 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 尸十卜一口 (SJYMR), four-corner 7060₁, composition ⿱辟言)

Derived characters

• 𭍅

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1183, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36019
• Dae Jaweon: page 1646, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4026, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8B6C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		譬

Glyph origin

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 *pʰeɡs): phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 言.

Etymology

Compared to Tibetan དཔེ (dpe, “example”) by Sagart (2020).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pì (pi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei³
• Eastern Min (BUC): pī
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phì

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pi³

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵phi / ³phi
  • (Jinhua): ⁵phi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pì
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pì
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi⁴
    • Yale: pì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pih
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pei³
    • Yale: pei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: pī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phì
    • Tâi-lô: phì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phix
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /pʰi²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰi⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰi²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pʰi¹¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰi²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pi³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading, Songjiang, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan)
    • Wugniu: ⁵phi
    • MiniDict: phi^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²phi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pʰi³⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Jiading): /pʰi³⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /pʰi³⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /pʰi⁵²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /pʰi³³⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /pʰi⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhoushan): /pʰi⁴⁴/
  • (Northern: Chongming, Changzhou, Shaoxing)
    • Wugniu: ³phi
    • MiniDict: phi^上
    • Sinological IPA (Chongming): /pʰi⁴²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /pʰi⁴⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /pʰi³³⁵/
  • (Jinhua)
    • Wugniu: ⁵phi
    • Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /pʰi⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: phjieH

Rime
Character	譬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	匹賜切
Baxter	phjieH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰjɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰiə̆H/
Li Rong	/pʰieH/
Wang Li	/pʰǐeH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pʰie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pei3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰek-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰeɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	譬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pì
Middle Chinese	‹ phjieH ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰek-s/
English	example
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	譬
Reading #	1/1
No.	666
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	譬
Old Chinese	/*pʰeɡs/

Definitions

譬

1. to make an analogy
2. analogy; metaphor
3. (literary) to inform; to explain
4. (literary) to understand

Compounds

• 取譬
• 妙喻取譬
• 寬譬 / 宽譬
• 引譬
• 方桃譬李
• 曉譬 / 晓譬
• 罕譬而喻
• 能近取譬
• 譎譬 / 谲譬
• 譬似閑 / 譬似闲
• 譬喻 (pìyù)
• 譬如 (pìrú)
• 譬如閒 / 譬如闲
• 譬方
• 譬語 / 譬语 (pìyǔ)
• 譬諸 / 譬诸

References

• “譬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

譬

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. illustrate

Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: たとえる (tatoeru, 譬える)、たとえ (tatoe, 譬え)

Korean

Hanja

譬 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

譬: Hán Nôm readings: thí, thía, tỉ, ví

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