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俳

俳

俳 U+4FF3, 俳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FF3
← 俲
[U+4FF2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 俴 →
[U+4FF4]

Translingual

Han character

俳 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人中一卜 (OLMY), four-corner 21211, composition ⿰亻非)

References

  • KangXi: page 106, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 726
  • Dae Jaweon: page 226, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 174, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4FF3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 俳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 俳
Small seal script

s05853
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (非) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
啡 *pʰɯːlʔ
排 *brɯːl
俳 *brɯːl
輫 *brɯːl, *buːl
悲 *prɯl
棑 *breː, *brɯːls
輩 *puːls
裴 *buːl, *bɯl
徘 *buːl
琲 *buːlʔ
痱 *buːlʔ, *pɯds, *bɯl, *bɯls
非 *pɯl
扉 *pɯl
緋 *pɯl
猆 *pɯl
斐 *pɯl, *pʰɯlʔ
馡 *pɯl
騑 *pɯl, *pʰɯl
誹 *pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls
餥 *pɯl, *pɯlʔ
匪 *pɯlʔ
棐 *pɯlʔ
蜚 *pɯlʔ, *bɯls
篚 *pɯlʔ
榧 *pɯlʔ
鯡 *pɯls
霏 *pʰɯl
菲 *pʰɯl, *pʰɯlʔ, *bɯls
婔 *pʰɯl
裶 *pʰɯl
悱 *pʰɯlʔ
奜 *pʰɯlʔ
腓 *bɯl, *bɯls
陫 *bɯlʔ
屝 *bɯls
厞 *bɯls
翡 *bɯls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *brɯːl) : semantic 亻 ‎(“person”) + phonetic 非 ‎(OC *pɯl) – a type of person.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 俳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 步皆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bəɨj/
Li
Rong		 /bɛi/
Wang
Li		 /bɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pái
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 俳
Reading # 1/1
No. 3065
Phonetic
component		 非
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 排
Old
Chinese		 /*brɯːl/

Definitions

俳

  1. actor
  2. vaudeville show
  3. insincere

Japanese

Kanji

俳

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. haiku

Readings

Korean

Hanja

俳 • ‎(bae) (hangeul 배, revised bae, McCune-Reischauer pae)

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