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婢

婢

Translingual

Han character

婢 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女竹田十 (VHWJ), four-corner 46440, composition ⿰女卑)

  1. servant girl
  2. your servant

References

  • KangXi: page 265, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6428
  • Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1059, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5A62

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 婢

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

Rime
Character 婢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 便婢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /biᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /biə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /bieX/
Wang
Li		 /bǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjieX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]eʔ/
English female slave or servant

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 婢 婢
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 378 394
Phonetic
component		 卑 卑
Rime
group		 支 支
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 𢔌 婢
Old
Chinese		 /*peʔ/ /*beʔ/

Definitions

婢

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Compounds

  • 僮婢
  • 呼奴使婢
  • 女婢
  • 奴婢 (núbì)
  • 奴脣婢舌／奴唇婢舌
  • 奴顏婢睞／奴颜婢睐
  • 奴顏婢膝／奴颜婢膝
  • 婢作夫人
  • 婢僕／婢仆
  • 婢女 (bìnǚ)
  • 婢妮
  • 婢妾 (bìqiè)
  • 婢子
  • 婢學夫人／婢学夫人
  • 婢膝奴顏／婢膝奴颜
  • 媵婢
  • 官婢
  • 家生婢
  • 灶下婢
  • 爨婢
  • 童婢
  • 老婢
  • 賤婢／贱婢
  • 金奴銀婢／金奴银婢

Japanese

Kanji

婢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 僕婢 (bokuhi)
  • 厨婢 (chūhi)
  • 奴婢 (dohi, nuhi)
  • 傅婢 (fuhi)
  • 婢僕 (hiboku)
  • 婢子 (hishi)
  • 婢妾 (hishō)
  • 侍婢 (jihi, makatachi)
  • 下婢 (kahi)
  • 角婢 (kakuhi)
  • 官奴婢 (kannuhi)
  • 官婢 (kanpi)
  • 公奴婢 (kunuhi)
  • 賤婢 (senpi)
  • 私奴 (shinuhi)
  • 老婢 (rōhi)

Korean

Hanja

婢 • ‎(bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婢 (tì)

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