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Translingual

Han character

(radical 122 +14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中戈心火 (WLIPF), four-corner 60331, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 950, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28398
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2928, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7F86

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 # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/piɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pjiə̆/
Li
Rong
/pje/
Wang
Li
/pǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pje ›
Old
Chinese
/*praj/
English brown-and-white bear

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. 171
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pral/

Noun

  1. brown bear

Synonyms


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. brown bear

Readings

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
ひぐま
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ひぐま, katakana ヒグマ, romaji higuma)

  1. a brown bear

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. (말곰 비, malgom-): brown bear, horse bear

Synonyms


Vietnamese

Han character

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