逼

Translingual

Han character

逼 (radical 162 辵+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一口田 (YMRW), four-corner 3130₆, composition ⿺辶畐)

References

• KangXi: page 1260, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38973
• Dae Jaweon: page 1750, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3856, character 8
• Unihan data for U+903C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		逼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bī (bi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bī
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: pih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bi
    • IPA ^(key): /pi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bik¹
    • Yale: bīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /pɪk̚⁵/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 逼
Mandarin	Beijing	/pi⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/pi²⁴/
	Tianjin	/pi²¹/
	Jinan	/pi⁴²/
	Qingdao	/pi⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/pi⁴²/
	Xi'an	/pi²¹/
	Xining	/pji⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/pi¹³/
	Lanzhou	/pi¹³/
	Ürümqi	/pi²¹³/
	Wuhan	/pi²¹³/
	Chengdu	/pi³¹/ /pi⁵⁵/ /pie⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/pi²¹/
	Kunming	/pi³¹/
	Nanjing	/piʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/piəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/piəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/piʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/piəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/piɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/piəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/piəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/pi²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/piʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/pi⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/pi²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/pi³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/piʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/pit̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/pet̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pek̚⁵/
	Nanning	/pek̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/pik̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pik̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/pɛiʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pi²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pek̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ʔbek̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /pɨk̚/▼

Rime
Character	逼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	彼側切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pik̚/
Li Rong	/piək̚/
Wang Li	/pĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*prək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*prɯɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	逼
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bī
Middle Chinese	‹ pik ›
Old Chinese	/*prək/
English	urge, press
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	逼
Reading #	1/1
No.	3378
Phonetic component	畐
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	逼
Old Chinese	/*prɯɡ/

Definitions

1. compel, pressure, force
2. to bother

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Japanese

Kanji

逼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ひき (hiki)
• Kan’on: ひょく (hyoku)
• Kan’yōon: ひつ (hitsu)
• Kun: せまる (semaru)

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Korean

Hanja

逼 • ‎(pip, byeok) (hangeul 핍, 벽, revised pip, byeok, McCune-Reischauer p'ip, pyŏk, Yale phip, pyek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

逼 (bức, bực)

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