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畀
畀
See also: 異
Translingual
Han character
畀 (radical 102 田+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 田一中 (WML), four-corner 60221, composition ⿱田丌)
References
- KangXi: page 759, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21748
- Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2530, character 6
- Unihan data for U+7540
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
畀 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms | 俾 colloquial Cantonese | |
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-bəj-n/k (“to give”). Cognate with Tibetan སྦྱིན་པ (sbyin pa, “to give, to bestow”) and Burmese ပေး (pe:, “to give”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: pih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
- IPA (key): /pi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: bei2
- Yale: béi
- Cantonese Pinyin: bei2
- IPA (key): /pei̯³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: ei2
- IPA (key): /ei⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 畀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 必至切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/piɪH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/piH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/pjɪH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/piH/ |
| Li Rong |
/piH/ |
| Wang Li |
/piH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/piH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
bì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 畀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
bì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pjijH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*pi[t]-s/ |
| English | give |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 畀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 606 |
| Phonetic component |
畀 |
| Rime group |
至 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
痹 |
| Old Chinese |
/*pids/ |
Definitions
畀
- (literary or Cantonese) to give
- (Cantonese) for
- (Cantonese) to allow (someone or something to do something)
- (Cantonese) to allow (an event to happen)
- (Cantonese) to
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 給 (“to give”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 予 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 給 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 給 |
| Taiwan | 給 | |
| Tianjin | 給 | |
| Jinan | 給 | |
| Xi'an | 給 | |
| Wuhan | 把、把得、給 | |
| Chengdu | 給 | |
| Yangzhou | 把、給 | |
| Hefei | 給 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 畀 |
| Hong Kong | 畀 | |
| Taishan | 予 | |
| Yangjiang | 畀 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 把 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 分 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 分 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 分 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 分 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 分 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 分 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 得 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 給 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 吶 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 乞 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 予 |
| Xiamen | 予 | |
| Zhangzhou | 予 | |
| Taipei | 予 | |
| Kaohsiung | 予 | |
| Tainan | 予 | |
| Taichung | 予 | |
| Yilan | 予 | |
| Lukang | 予 | |
| Sanxia | 予 | |
| Kinmen | 予 | |
| Magong | 予 | |
| Hsinchu | 予 | |
| Chaozhou | 分 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 撥 |
| Suzhou | 撥 | |
| Wenzhou | 匄 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 把 |
Compounds
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