辥

See also: 薛

辥 U+8FA5, 辥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FA5 ← 辤 [U+8FA4] CJK Unified Ideographs 辦 → [U+8FA6]

Translingual

Han character

辥 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+9, 16 strokes, Cangjie input 山口卜廿十 (URYTJ), composition ⿰⿱屮𠂤辛)

1. variety of marsh grass

Derived characters

• 𮜧, 𪇷, 㔎, 𫲕, 孼, 𬂘, 櫱, 糱, 蠥, 𰸷, 𡾦, 𧀼, 𧃎

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1251, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38654
• Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4042, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8FA5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		辥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 辥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
躠	*sŋaːd
嶭	*ŋaːd, *ŋeːd
櫱	*ŋaːd, *ŋred
薛	*sŋed
辥	*sŋed
孼	*ŋred
蘖	*ŋred
蠥	*ŋred
孽	*ŋred
糵	*ŋred

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋed): semantic 辛 (“chisel-like knife (crime)”) + phonetic 𡴎 (niè) – Sin.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuē (xue¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sit³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuē
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syue
    • Wade–Giles: hsüeh¹
    • Yale: sywē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiue
    • Palladius: сюэ (sjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sit³
    • Yale: sit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: xid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: sjet

Rime
Character	辥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	薛 (81)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	私列切
Baxter	sjet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siat̚/
Li Rong	/siɛt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sit3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.ŋat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋed/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuē
Middle Chinese	‹ sjet ›
Old Chinese	/*s.ŋat/
English	to control, to correct, govern
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	辥
Reading #	1/1
No.	14061
Phonetic component	薛
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	薛
Old Chinese	/*sŋed/
Notes	金文或從辛夕， 疑夕爲月聲

Definitions

辥

1. alternative form of 薛 (xuē)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

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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/

Definitions

辥

1. (obsolete) alternative form of 辟

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Yale: yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/

Definitions

辥

1. (obsolete) alternative form of 乂

Japanese

Kanji

辥

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: つみ (tsumi, 辥)