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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 74 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山山 (BUU), four-corner 72272, composition)

  1. light of crescent moon

References

  • KangXi: page 505, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14351
  • Dae Jaweon: page 883, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2065, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+670F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰluːd, *pʰlɯːlʔ, *pʰlɯːls, *pʰlɯlʔ
*pʰluːds, *pʰluːd

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (2) (2)
Final () (21) (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰʉiX/ /pʰʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰʷɨiX/ /pʰəiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰiuəiX/ /pʰɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰujX/ /pʰəjX/
Li
Rong
/pʰiuəiX/ /pʰᴀiX/
Wang
Li
/pʰĭwəiX/ /pʰɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰwe̯iX/ /pʰɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fěi pěi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fěi
Middle
Chinese
‹ phjɨjX ›
Old
Chinese
/*pʰ[ə]jʔ/
English new light of the moon

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
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 1568 3122 3123 3125
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰluːd/ /*pʰlɯːlʔ/ /*pʰlɯːls/ /*pʰlɯlʔ/
Notes

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(bi) (hangeul , revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi)

  1. crescent

Vietnamese

Han character

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