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Translingual

Han character

(radical 102 +3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 田一中 (WML), four-corner 60221, composition)

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.
alt. forms 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



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*pi[t]-s/
English give

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 # 1/1
No. 606
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pids/

Definitions

  1. (literary or Cantonese) to give
  2. (Cantonese) for
    原先 [Cantonese, trad.]
    原先 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Jyun4 sin1 hai6bei2 nei5 sik6 ge3. [Jyutping]
    It was originally for you to eat.
  3. (Cantonese) to allow (someone or something to do something)
  4. (Cantonese) to allow (an event to happen)
  5. (Cantonese) to
    / [Cantonese]   gong2bei2 nei5 zi1 [Jyutping]   to tell you

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of (“to give”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
Mandarin Beijing
Taiwan
Tianjin
Jinan
Xi'an
Wuhan 、把得、
Chengdu
Yangzhou
Hefei
Cantonese Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Taishan
Yangjiang
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian
Miaoli (N. Sixian)
Liudui (S. Sixian)
Hsinchu (Hailu)
Dongshi (Dabu)
Zhuolan (Raoping)
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Jin Taiyuan
Min Bei Jian'ou
Min Dong Fuzhou
Min Nan Quanzhou
Xiamen
Zhangzhou
Taipei
Kaohsiung
Tainan
Taichung
Yilan
Lukang
Sanxia
Kinmen
Magong
Hsinchu
Chaozhou
Wu Shanghai
Suzhou
Wenzhou
Xiang Changsha

Compounds

  • 付畀
  • 投畀豺虎
  • 賦畀赋畀

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to give

Readings

  • On: (hi)
  • Kun: あたえるもの (ataerumono)

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. to give