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Translingual

Han character

(radical 122 +10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 田中戈月心 (WLIBP), four-corner 60211, composition)

  1. cease, finish, stop
  2. give up

References

  • KangXi: page 949, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28336
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1390, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2924, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7F77

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*preːlʔ
*breːl, *pral, *bral
*breːlʔ, *bral, *bralʔ
*breːlʔ
*pral
*pral, *pʰrals
*pral, *prals

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (3) (3) (3)
Final () (13) (13) (31)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () Chongniu III Chongniu III II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠiᴇ/ /bˠiᴇX/ /bˠɛX/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚiɛ/ /bᵚiɛX/ /bᵚæX/
Shao
Rongfen
/biɛ/ /biɛX/ /bæiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bjiə̆/ /bjiə̆X/ /baɨjX/
Li
Rong
/bje/ /bjeX/ /bɛX/
Wang
Li
/bǐe/ /bǐeX/ /baiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱie̯/ /bʱie̯X/ /bʱaiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ X › ‹ bje ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˤrajʔ/ /*[b]raj/
English stop, cease wear out, exhaust

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 # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 169 177 179
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*breːlʔ/ /*bral/ /*bralʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to stop
  2. to leave, to withdraw
  3. to quit
  4. to go

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pa, pi) (hangeul , , revised pa, pi, McCune-Reischauer p'a, p'i, Yale pha, phi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bãi, bảy, bời, bởi)

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