鐾

Translingual

Han character

鐾 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 尸十金 (SJC) or 難尸十金 (XSJC), composition ⿱辟金)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1324, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40943
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4266, character 3
• Unihan data for U+943E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		鐾
alternative forms		鐴／𬭽

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bèi (bei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bèi
    • Wade–Giles: pei⁴
    • Yale: bèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bey
    • Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bai³
    • Yale: bai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯³³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*beːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鐾
Reading #	1/1
No.	664
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	薜
Old Chinese	/*beːɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鐾

1. to sharpen (a knife by repeated grinding)