鼙

鼙 U+9F19, 鼙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F19 ← 鼘 [U+9F18] CJK Unified Ideographs 鼚 → [U+9F1A]

Translingual

Han character

鼙 (Kangxi radical 207, 鼓+8, 21 strokes, cangjie input 土水竹田十 (GEHWJ), four-corner 4440₆, composition ⿱鼓卑)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1526, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48361
• Dae Jaweon: page 2062, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4765, character 15
• Unihan data for U+9F19

Chinese

trad.		鼙
simp. #		鼙
alternative forms		𧯿 鞞

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
捭	*preːʔ
牌	*breː, *breː
郫	*breː, *bre, *be
蠯	*breː, *be, *breːŋʔ
猈	*breːʔ, *breː
稗	*breːs
粺	*breːs
𥱼	*breː
豍	*peː
箄	*peː, *pe, *peʔ
錍	*pʰeː, *pe
睥	*pʰeːs
渒	*pʰeːs, *pe
鼙	*beː
鞞	*beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ
椑	*beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ
崥	*beː, *peʔ
髀	*beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ
卑	*pe
鵯	*pe, *pʰiɡ
裨	*pe, *be
痺	*pe
碑	*pre
婢	*peʔ, *beʔ
諀	*pʰeʔ
脾	*be
埤	*be
陴	*be
蜱	*be, *mbew
焷	*be
螷	*be, *breːŋʔ
庳	*beʔ
琕	*biːŋ
萆	*beɡ, *slɯʔ
綼	*biɡ, *peːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pí (pi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pí
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pí
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi²
    • Yale: pí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pei⁴
    • Yale: pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: bej

Rime
Character	鼙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	部迷切
Baxter	bej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bei/
Pan Wuyun	/bei/
Shao Rongfen	/bɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɛj/
Li Rong	/bei/
Wang Li	/biei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pai4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤe/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鼙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pí
Middle Chinese	‹ bej ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁe/
English	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	鼙
Reading #	1/1
No.	363
Phonetic component	卑
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	鼙
Old Chinese	/*beː/

Definitions

鼙

1. (literary) small military drum
2. (literary) small drum (in general)

Compounds

• 應鼙 / 应鼙
• 朔鼙
• 漁陽鼙鼓 / 渔阳鼙鼓
• 鼓鼙 (gǔpí)
• 鼙婆 (pípó)
• 鼙舞
• 鼙鼓
• 鼙鼓雷鳴 / 鼙鼓雷鸣

Japanese

Kanji

鼙

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. drum carried on horseback

Readings

• On (unclassified): へい (hei)、べい (bei)、ばい (bai)
• Kun: せめつづみ (semetsuzumi)、うまのりつづみ (umanoritsuzumi)

Korean

Hanja

鼙 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

1. drum carried on horseback

Vietnamese

Han character

鼙: Hán Nôm readings: bề, tì

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