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Translingual

Han character

(radical 128 +7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸十中田尸 (SJLWS), four-corner 15127)

  1. engage, employ
  2. betroth

References

  • KangXi: page 967, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29079
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1417, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2789, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8058

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pʰleːŋ, *pʰleŋs
*pʰleːŋ
*pʰleŋs
*pʰleŋs
*l̥ʰeŋʔ
*leŋʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (121)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰiᴇŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰiɛŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰiæŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰiajŋH/
Li
Rong
/pʰiɛŋH/
Wang
Li
/pʰĭɛŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰi̯ɛŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
pìn
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjiengH ›
Old
Chinese
/*p.leŋ-s/
English inquire; invite

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. 9807
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰleŋs/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(bing) (hangeul , revised bing, McCune-Reischauer ping, Yale ping)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(sính, sánh)

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