鼓鼙

Chinese

		convex; drum; to rouse convex; drum; to rouse; to beat	drum carried on horseback
trad. (鼓鼙)		鼓	鼙
simp. #(鼓鼙)		鼓	鼙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔpí

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu² pei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǔpí
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ ㄆㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǔpí
    • Wade–Giles: ku³-pʻi²
    • Yale: gǔ-pí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guupyi
    • Palladius: гупи (gupi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ pʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gu² pei⁴
    • Yale: gú pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu² pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu² péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː³⁵ pʰei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kuX bej

Rime
Character	鼓	鼙
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	IV
Fanqie	公戸切	部迷切
Baxter	kuX	bej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuoX/	/bei/
Pan Wuyun	/kuoX/	/bei/
Shao Rongfen	/koX/	/bɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔX/	/bɛj/
Li Rong	/koX/	/bei/
Wang Li	/kuX/	/biei/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuoX/	/bʱiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǔ	pí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu2	pai4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤaʔ  [b]ˤe/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaːʔ  beː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鼓	鼙
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǔ	pí
Middle Chinese	‹ kuX ›	‹ bej ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁaʔ/	/*[b]ˁe/
English	drum (n. & v.)	small hand-drum
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	鼓	鼙
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4337	363
Phonetic component	鼓	卑
Rime group	魚	支
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	古	鼙
Old Chinese	/*kʷaːʔ/	/*beː/
Notes	亦同皷

Noun

鼓鼙

1. a kind of military drum

References

• “Entry #71290”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.