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璧

璧

See also: 壁

Translingual

Han character

璧 (radical 96 玉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一土戈 (SJMGI), four-corner 70103)

  1. piece of jade with hole in it

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 742, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1142, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+74A7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 璧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嬖 *peːɡs
薜 *beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾 *beːɡs
臂 *peɡs
譬 *pʰeɡs
避 *beɡs
檗 *preːɡ
擘 *preːɡ
糪 *preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰 *preːɡ
繴 *breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟 *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧 *peɡ
鐴 *peɡ
躄 *peɡ
襞 *peɡ
僻 *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖 *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦 *pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗 *beɡ
躃 *beɡ
闢 *beɡ
壁 *peːɡ
鼊 *peːɡ
霹 *pʰeːɡ
劈 *pʰeːɡ
澼 *pʰeːɡ
憵 *pʰeːɡ
甓 *beːɡ
鷿 *beːɡ
幦 *mbeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peɡ) : phonetic 辟 ‎(OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 玉 ‎(“jewel”) – a type of jewel, jade.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 璧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 必益切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /piᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /piɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /piajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /piɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /pĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 璧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjiek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pek/
English circular jade insignium

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 璧
Reading # 1/1
No. 676
Phonetic
component		 辟
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 辟
Old
Chinese		 /*peɡ/

Definitions

璧

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Japanese

Kanji

璧

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. ball, sphere

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

璧 • ‎(byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune-Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

璧 (bích, bệch, bịch, vách)

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