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Translingual

Han character

(radical 163 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口田弓中 (RWNL), four-corner 67627)

References

  • KangXi: page 1276, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39597
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1776, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3792, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+9119

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*prɯʔ
*prɯʔ, *daː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *prɯʔ) : phonetic  (OC *prɯʔ, *daː) +  .

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pi²¹⁴/
Harbin /pi⁵³/
Tianjin /pi¹³/
Jinan /pi²¹/
Qingdao /pi⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /pi³¹²/
Xi'an /pʰi⁵³/
Xining /pʰji⁵³/
Yinchuan /pi⁵³/
/pi¹³/
Lanzhou /pi⁴⁴²/
/pʰi⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /pi⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰi⁴²/
Chengdu /pʰi⁵³/
Guiyang /pʰi⁴²/
Kunming /pʰi⁵³/
Nanjing /pi²¹²/
Hefei /pz̩²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /pi⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pʰi⁵³/
Hohhot /pi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /pi³⁵/
Suzhou /pi⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pi⁵³/
Wenzhou /pei⁴²/
Hui Shexian /pʰi³⁵/
Tunxi /pʰi³¹/
Xiang Changsha /pʰi⁴¹/
Xiangtan /pʰi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /pʰi³¹/
Taoyuan /pʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰei³⁵/
Nanning /pʰi³⁵/
Hong Kong /pʰei³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pʰi⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pʰi³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pi²¹/
/pʰi²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fi³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/piɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pjiX/
Li
Rong
/pjiX/
Wang
Li
/piX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/piX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ pijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*prəʔ/
English border town

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. 550
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*prɯʔ/

Definitions

  1. countrified
  2. mean; ignoble
  3. to despise; to hold in contempt

Synonyms

  • (despise): (miè), (miǎo)

Antonyms

  • (despise): (jìng), (zūn), (chóng)

Compounds

  • 北鄙
  • 卑鄙 (bēibǐ)
  • 卑鄙無恥卑鄙无耻
  • 卑鄙齷齪卑鄙龌龊
  • 可鄙 (kěbǐ)
  • 嗤鄙
  • 嫌鄙
  • 樸鄙朴鄙
  • 粗鄙
  • 肉食者鄙
  • 草鄙
  • 貪鄙贪鄙
  • 貴遠鄙近贵远鄙近
  • 輕鄙轻鄙
  • 邊鄙边鄙
  • 都鄙
  • 都鄙有章
  • 鄙事
  • 鄙人 (bǐrén)
  • 鄙俗 (bǐsú)
  • 鄙俗不堪
  • 鄙俚
  • 鄙倍
  • 鄙厭鄙厌
  • 鄙吝
  • 鄙固
  • 鄙夫
  • 鄙夫之見鄙夫之见
  • 鄙夷
  • 鄙家
  • 鄙屑
  • 鄙師鄙师
  • 鄙悃
  • 鄙意
  • 鄙懷鄙怀
  • 鄙斥
  • 鄙易
  • 鄙棄鄙弃 (bǐqì)
  • 鄙猥
  • 鄙生
  • 鄙稱鄙称
  • 鄙笑
  • 鄙累
  • 鄙背
  • 鄙薄
  • 鄙袒
  • 鄙褻語鄙亵语
  • 鄙見鄙见
  • 鄙視鄙视 (bǐshì)
  • 鄙言
  • 鄙言俚語鄙言俚语
  • 鄙言累句
  • 鄙詐鄙诈
  • 鄙語鄙语
  • 鄙誠鄙诚
  • 鄙諺鄙谚
  • 鄙賤鄙贱
  • 鄙近
  • 鄙遠鄙远
  • 鄙野
  • 鄙陋

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

  • (countrified): 辺鄙

Etymology

Kanji in this term
とひと
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Originally a compound of (to, outside) + (hito, person). The kanji used is an example of jukujikun.

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana とひと, romaji tohito)

  1. (archaic, pejorative) a countrified or rustic person: a hick, a bumpkin

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bỉ, bẽ)

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