屁

屁 U+5C41, 屁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C41 ← 局 [U+5C40] CJK Unified Ideographs 层 → [U+5C42]

Translingual

Han character

屁 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸心心 (SPP), four-corner 7721₁, composition ⿸尸比)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7654
• Dae Jaweon: page 597, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5C41

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Chinese

trad.		屁
simp. #		屁
alternative forms		㞑 䊧 𡲩 𥤶 𥥓 㞑 䊧 𡲩 𥤶 𥥓 𥧔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
梐	*piː, *biːʔ
狴	*piː
悂	*piː, *pʰi
螕	*piː
鎞	*piː
蓖	*piː
篦	*piː, *bis
批	*pʰiː
砒	*pʰiː
鈚	*pʰiː, *bi
磇	*pʰiː
媲	*pʰiːs
笓	*biː
膍	*biː, *bi
陛	*biːʔ
仳	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ
吡	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
比	*piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ
妣	*piʔ, *pis
秕	*piʔ
沘	*piʔ, *bi
枇	*piʔ, *bi, *bis
粊	*pris
庇	*pis
屁	*pʰis
琵	*bi
毗	*bi
貔	*bi
豼	*bi
蚍	*bi
芘	*bi, *bis
肶	*bi
魮	*bi
阰	*bi
坒	*bis, *biɡ
玭	*bin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰis) : semantic 尸 (“body”) + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pja-n/t/s (“fart; shit”). Cognate with Tibetan ཕྱེན (phyen), འཕྱེན ('phyen, “flatulence”), Jingpho hpyet (“to fart”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 屁

1. (colloquial) flatulence; fart (Classifier: 篤／笃 c)

   放屁  ―  fàngpì  ―  to fart; to bullshit

2. (colloquial) buttocks; backside

   馬屁／马屁  ―  mǎpì  ―  horse's backside; flattery

   狗屁  ―  gǒupì  ―  dog's backside; nonsense; worthless thing; bullshit

   屁眼  ―  pìyǎn  ―  anus; asshole

3. (colloquial) to fart; to pass gas

   屁者先知  ―  pìzhěxiānzhī  ―  [jocular] The farter is usually the first to realise (and complain about the fart).

4. (vulgar) rubbish; worthless; useless; insignificant; trivial

   屁話／屁话  ―  pìhuà  ―  nonsense

   屁事  ―  pìshì  ―  trivial thing

5. (vulgar, chiefly in the negative) a damn thing; (no)thing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all

   他屁都不是。  ―  Tā pì dōu bùshì.  ―  He is an absolute shit.

   你懂個屁！／你懂个屁！  ―  Nǐ dǒng ge pì!  ―  You know jack shit!

   關我屁事！／关我屁事！  ―  Guān wǒ pì shì!  ―  Like I give a damn!

   • 光頭撇嘴：「我們的世界你懂個屁！武力就是法！」 [MSC, trad.]
     光头撇嘴：「我们的世界你懂个屁！武力就是法！」 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2015 August 22, 刘振涛 (Liu Zhentao), 《阿P遭劫》, in 《故事会》, →ISSN, issue 590, page 60

     Guāngtóu piězuǐ: “Wǒmen de shìjiè nǐ dǒng ge pì! Wǔlì jiùshì fǎ!” [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. (vulgar, negates the meaning of the sentence) like hell/like fuck; my ass; your ass; damn all/bugger all/fuck all

   你有屁用！  ―  Nǐ yǒu pì yòng!  ―  You are of fuck all use!

   吃屁飯啊！／吃屁饭啊！  ―  Chī pì fàn a!  ―  Fuck having a meal!/Have fuck-all meal!

   道個屁歉！／道个屁歉！  ―  Dào ge pì qiàn!  ―  Apologize my ass!

Synonyms

• (flatulence): (slang, humorous) 原子彈／原子弹 (yuánzǐdàn); (Hakka) 屁卵

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Japanese

Kanji

屁

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. flatulence, fart

Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: へ (he, 屁)

Compounds

Compounds

• 言(い)い出(だ)しっ屁(ぺ) (iidashippe)
• 河(かっ)童(ぱ)の屁(へ) (kappa no he)
• 最(さい)後(ご)っ屁(ぺ) (saigoppe)
• 沈(じん)香(こう)も焚(た)かず屁(へ)もひらず (jinkō mo takazu he mo hirazu)
• 透(す)かし屁(べ) (sukashibe)
• 握(にぎ)り屁(べ) (nigiribe)
• 百(ひゃく)日(にち)の説(せっ)法(ぽう)屁(へ)一(ひと)つ (hyakunichi no seppō he hitotsu)
• 屁(へ)負(お)い比(び)丘(く)尼(に) (heoi bikuni)
• 屁(へ)糞(くそ)葛(かずら) (hekusokazura), 屁(へ)屎(くそ)葛(かずら) (hekusokazura)
• 屁(へ)放(こ)き虫(むし) (hekokimushi)
• 屁(へ)っ放(ぴ)り (heppiri)
• 屁(へ)でもない (he de mo nai)
• 屁(へ)とも思(おも)わない (he to mo omowanai)
• 屁(へ)の河(かっ)童(ぱ) (he no kappa)
• 屁(へ)の突(つ)っ張(ぱ)りにもならない (he no tsuppari ni mo naranai)
• 放屁(へひり) (hehiri)
• 屁(へ)理(り)屈(くつ) (herikutsu)
• 屁(へ)をひって尻(しり)すぼめ (he o hitte shiri subome)
• 放(ほう)屁(ひ) (hōhi)

Kanji in this term
屁
へ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

屁(へ) • (he) 

1. (mildly vulgar) flatulence, fart

Synonyms

• おなら (onara)

Derived terms

• 屁(へ)をこく (he o koku)
• 屁(へ)をひる (he o hiru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

屁: Hán Nôm readings: thí

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