辟邪

Chinese

		law; king; emperor law; king; emperor; monarch; royal; ward off	daemonical; iniquitous; nefarious
trad. (辟邪)		辟	邪
simp. #(辟邪)		辟	邪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bìxié

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pik¹ ce⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phiah-siâ / phek-siâ / phì-siâ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìxié
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìsié
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴-hsieh²
    • Yale: bì-syé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihshye
    • Palladius: бисе (bise)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹ ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 辟邪 避邪

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pik¹ ce⁴
    • Yale: pīk chèh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pik⁷ tse⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pig¹ cé⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɪk̚⁵ t͡sʰɛː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiah-siâ
    • Tâi-lô: phiah-siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiahsiaa
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰia(ʔ)⁵ sia²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /pʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ sia²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phek-siâ
    • Tâi-lô: phik-siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pheksiaa
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ sia²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ sia²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ sia¹³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phì-siâ
    • Tâi-lô: phì-siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiesiaa
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰi²¹⁻⁴¹ sia²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pʰi¹¹⁻⁵³ sia²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: bjiek zjae

Rime
Character	辟	邪
Reading #	1/3	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	房益切	似嗟切
Baxter	bjiek	zjae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇk̚/	/zia/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛk̚/	/zia/
Shao Rongfen	/biæk̚/	/zia/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biajk̚/	/zia/
Li Rong	/biɛk̚/	/zia/
Wang Li	/bĭɛk̚/	/zĭa/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛk̚/	/zi̯a/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bí	xié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bik6	ce4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤek  sə.ɢA/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beɡ  ljaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辟	邪
Reading #	1/3	1/4
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì	xié
Middle Chinese	‹ bek ›	‹ zjæ ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁek/	/*sə.ɢA/
English	inner coffin	awry
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	辟	邪
Reading #	3/3	1/2
No.	684	14175
Phonetic component	辟	牙
Rime group	錫	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	擗	衺
Old Chinese	/*beɡ/	/*ljaː/

Noun

辟邪

a stone sculpture of bixie by the tomb of Xiao Bing(477–523)

1. bixie, the mythical creature (a chimera-like figure, commonly stone sculpture)

   • 今鄧州南陽縣北有宗資碑，旁有兩石獸，鐫其膊一曰天祿，二曰辟邪。據此，即天祿、辟邪，並獸名也。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     今邓州南阳县北有宗资碑，旁有两石兽，镌其膊一曰天禄，二曰辟邪。据此，即天禄、辟邪，并兽名也。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 677, Prince Zhanghuai, et al., annotation to The Book of the Later Han

     Jīn Dèngzhōu Nányáng xiàn běi yǒu Zōng Zī bēi, páng yǒu liǎng shíshòu, juān qí bó yī yuē tiānlù, èr yuē bìxié. Jùcǐ, jí tiānlù, bìxié, bìng shòu míng yě. [Pinyin]

     Today there are two stone statues beside the tombstone of Zong Zi (fl. 160) located to the north of Nanyang County of Dengzhou with characters carved on their wings, one being tianlu, the other called bixie. From this we can infer that both tianlu and bixie are the names of beasts.

Verb

辟⫽邪 (verb-object) (intransitive)

1. alternative spelling of 避邪 (bìxié, “to ward off evil spirits”)