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肥
肥
Translingual
Han character
肥 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月日山 (BAU), four-corner 77217, composition ⿰月巴)
References
- KangXi: page 974, character 23
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29290
- Dae Jaweon: page 1426, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2055, character 1
- Unihan data for U+80A5
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
肥 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 肥
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| Large seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (肥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 蜰 | *pɯlʔ, *bɯl |
| 肥 | *bɯl |
| 淝 | *bɯl |
| 萉 | *bɯls |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˊ
- Wade-Giles: fei2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feir
- IPA (key): /feɪ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: fei4, fai6
- Yale: fèih, faih
- Cantonese Pinyin: fei4, fai6
- IPA (key): /fei̯²¹/, /fɐi̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phì
- Hakka Romanization System: piˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: pi2
- IPA: /pʰi¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pûi
- Tâi-lô: puî
- Phofsit Daibuun: puii
- IPA (Xiamen): /pui²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pui²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pui¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /pui²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pui²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 肥 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /fei³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /fei²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /fei⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /fei⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /fe⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /fi⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /fi²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /fɨ²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /fei⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /fei⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /fei⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /fei²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /fei³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /fei²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /fei³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /fəi²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /fe⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /fei¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /xuei¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /fei³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai |
/vi²³/ /bi²³/ |
| Suzhou | /vi¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou |
/bi²¹³/ /vi²¹³/ |
|
| Wenzhou |
/vei³¹/ /bei³¹/ |
|
| Hui | Shexian | /fe⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /fe⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /fei¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɸəi¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /fɨi⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /pʰi¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /pʰui¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /fei²¹/ |
| Nanning | /fi²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /fei²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/hui³⁵/ /pui³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /puoi⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /py³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /pui⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ʔbui³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 微 (21) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 符非切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/bʉi/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/bʷɨi/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/biuəi/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/buj/ |
| Li Rong |
/biuəi/ |
| Wang Li |
/bĭwəi/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/bʱwe̯i/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
féi |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
féi |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ bjɨj › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[b][ə]r/ |
| English | fat (adj.) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3118 |
| Phonetic component |
肥 |
| Rime group |
微 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
肥 |
| Old Chinese |
/*bɯl/ |
| Notes | 俞敏雲妃省聲 |
Noun
肥
Adjective
肥
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 胖 (“fat (a.)”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 胖 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 胖、富態 |
| Taiwan | 胖 | |
| Jinan | 胖、富態 | |
| Xi'an | 胖、富態 | |
| Wuhan | 胖、富態 | |
| Chengdu | 胖、富態 | |
| Yangzhou | 胖、富態 | |
| Hefei | 胖、富態 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 肥 |
| Hong Kong | 肥 | |
| Taishan | 肥 | |
| Yangjiang | 肥、生肉 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 胖 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 肥 |
| Xingning | 肥 | |
| Huidong (Huizhou) | 肥 | |
| Qujiang | 肥 | |
| Xiaosanjiang | 肥 | |
| Changting | 壯、肥 | |
| Pingyu | 肥 | |
| Wuping | 壯 | |
| Liancheng | 壯 | |
| Ninghua | 壯 | |
| Ruijin | 壯 | |
| Shicheng | 壯 | |
| Shangyou | 壯 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 肥、大箍 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 肥、大箍 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 肥、大箍 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 肥、大箍 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 肥、大箍 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 大箍 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 胖、肉、富態 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 肥 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 肥 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 肥 |
| Xiamen | 肥 | |
| Zhangzhou | 肥 | |
| Taipei | 大箍、肥 | |
| Kaohsiung | 大箍、肥 | |
| Tainan | 大箍、肥 | |
| Taichung | 肥、大箍 | |
| Yilan | 大箍、肥 | |
| Lukang | 大箍、肥 | |
| Sanxia | 大箍 | |
| Kinmen | 大箍、肥 | |
| Magong | 大箍、肥 | |
| Hsinchu | 肥 | |
| Chaozhou | 肥 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 胖、壯 |
| Wenzhou | 壯 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 胖 |
| Shuangfeng | 胖 | |
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
肥 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)
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Vietnamese
Han character
肥 (phì, phè, phề)
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