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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿火月大 (TFBK), four-corner 44248)

  1. cover, hide, conceal
  2. shelter

References

  • KangXi: page 1056, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31888
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3277, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+853D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*peds
*peds, *ped
*peds, *ped
*peds, *peːd
*pʰeds, *pʰed
*beds, *bed
*beds, *bed
*beds
*beds
*ped
*ped
*ped, *pʰed, *peːd
*pʰed, *pʰeːd
*pʰed, *pʰeːd
*bed, *pʰeːd
*pʰeːd
*pʰeːd
*pʰeːd
*beːd
*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peds) : semantic  (grass) + phonetic  (OC *beds, *bed).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/piᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/piɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/piajH/
Li
Rong
/piɛiH/
Wang
Li
/pĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjiejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*pe[t]-s/
English cover (v.)

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. 627
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*peds/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. cover, hide, conceal

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(pye, byeol, bul) (hangeul , , , revised pye, byeol, bul, McCune-Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, pul, Yale phyey, pyel, pul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tế)

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