避

Translingual

Han character

避 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+13, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜尸口十 (YSRJ), four-corner 3030₄, composition ⿺辶辟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1266, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39163
• Dae Jaweon: page 1763, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3891, character 5
• Unihan data for U+907F

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Chinese

trad.		避
simp. #		避

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 *beɡs) : semantic 辵 (“to walk”) + phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phit
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pī / phiah

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bi⁷

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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: bei⁶
    • Yale: beih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phit
    • Hakka Romanization System: pid^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰit̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pī
    • Tâi-lô: pī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pi
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pi²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiah
    • Tâi-lô: phiah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiaq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰiaʔ³²/

Note: phiah - also written as 辟.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bi⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: bjieH

Rime
Character	避
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	毗義切
Baxter	bjieH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/bjɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biə̆H/
Li Rong	/bieH/
Wang Li	/bǐeH/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ek-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	避
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bjieH ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ek-s/
English	avoid
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	避
Reading #	1/1
No.	667
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	避
Old Chinese	/*beɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 避

1. to avoid; to escape; to dodge
2. to prevent; to keep away

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

避

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kun: さける (sakeru, 避ける, Jōyō); よける (yokeru, 避ける)

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Korean

Hanja

避 • (pi)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 피 (revised: pi, McCune–Reischauer: p'i, Yale: phi)
  • Name (hangeul): 피할
    

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 避 (tị)

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