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拜
拜
See also: 拝
Translingual
Han character
拜 (radical 64 手+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹手一手十 (HQMQJ), four-corner 21550, composition ⿰龵⿱一丰)
References
- KangXi: page 427, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11969
- Dae Jaweon: page 775, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1846, character 7
- Unihan data for U+62DC
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
拜 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 拜
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (拜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 拜 | *proːds |
| 湃 | *pʰroːds |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): baai3, baai1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pai
- Min Dong (BUC): bái / buái
- Min Nan (POJ): pài
- Wu (Wiktionary): pa (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˋ
- Wade-Giles: pai4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bay
- IPA (key): /paɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: baai3, baai1
- Yale: baai, bāai
- Cantonese Pinyin: baai3, baai1
- IPA (key): /pɑːi̯³³/, /pɑːi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pai
- Hakka Romanization System: bai
- Hagfa Pinyim: bai4
- IPA: /pa̯i⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: bái / buái
- IPA (key): /pɑi²¹³/, /puɑi²¹³/
- Note: bái - literary; buái - vernacular.
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pài
- Tâi-lô: pài
- Phofsit Daibuun: paix
- IPA (Xiamen): /paɪ²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /paɪ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /paɪ²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /paɪ¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /paɪ²¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: pa (T2)
- IPA (key): /pᴀ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 拜 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /pai⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /pai⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /pai⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /pɛ²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /pɛ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /pai³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /pai⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /pɛ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /pɛ¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /pɛ¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /pai²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /pai³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /pai¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /pai²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /pæ²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /pae⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /pe̞⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /pai⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /pæ³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /pɛ⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /pa³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /pɑ⁵¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /pe̞⁴⁴⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /pa⁴²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /pa³²⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /pa⁴²/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /pai⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /pai⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /pai⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /pai⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /pɑi⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /pai³³/ |
| Nanning | /pai³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /pai³³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /pai²¹/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /puɑi²¹²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /pai³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /pai²¹³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ʔbai³⁵/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 拜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 皆 (33) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 博怪切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pˠɛiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/pᵚæiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/pɐiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/pəɨjH/ |
| Li Rong |
/pɛiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/pɐiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/păiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
bài |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 拜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
bài |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pɛjH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*C.pˤro[t]-s/ |
| English | bow, bend (v.) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 拜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 222 |
| Phonetic component |
拜 |
| Rime group |
祭 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
𢷎 |
| Old Chinese |
/*proːds/ |
Definitions
拜
Compounds
Derived terms from 拜
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Japanese
Kanji
拜
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 拝)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
拜 • (bae) (hangeul 배, revised bae, McCune-Reischauer pae, Yale pay)
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