佖

佖	U+4F56, 佖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F56

← 何
[U+4F55]

CJK Unified Ideographs

佗 →
[U+4F57]

Translingual

Han character

佖 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人心竹 (OPH), four-corner 2329₀, composition ⿰亻必)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 98, character 16
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 512
Dae Jaweon: page 208, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 139, character 4
Unihan data for U+4F56

Chinese

simp. and trad.		佖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (必) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
泌	mpriɡs, priɡ, *bliɡ
秘	*mpriɡs
毖	*priɡs
閟	*priɡs
柲	priɡs, bliːɡ, priɡ, bliɡ
鉍	priɡs, priɡ
邲	priɡs, bliɡ, *briɡ
覕	pliŋs, mbliːɡ
咇	bliːɡ, priɡ, *bliɡ
苾	bliːɡ, bliɡ
馝	bliːɡ, bliɡ
飶	bliːɡ, bliɡ
鴓	*mbliːɡ
鮅	pliɡ, bliɡ
必	*pliɡ
珌	*pliɡ
佖	bliɡ, briɡ
駜	bliɡ, briɡ
怭	*bliɡ
妼	*bliɡ
宓	mriɡ, mliɡ
樒	*mriɡ
密	*mriɡ
蔤	*mriɡ
滵	*mriɡ
蜜	*mliɡ
謐	*mliɡ
榓	*mliɡ
淧	*mliɡ
瑟	smriɡ, smriɡ
璱	*sriɡ
飋	*sriɡ
虙	*blɯɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bit¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bì
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bì
  - Wade–Giles: pi⁴
  - Yale: bì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
  - Palladius: би (bi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bit¹
  - Yale: bīt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: bid¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚⁵/

Middle Chinese: bjit, bit

Rime
Character	佖	佖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	質 (49)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	毗必切	房密切
Baxter	bjit	bit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪt̚/	/bˠiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bit̚/	/bᵚit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/bjet̚/	/biet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bit̚/	/bjit̚/
Li Rong	/biĕt̚/	/bjĕt̚/
Wang Li	/bĭĕt̚/	/bĭĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ĕt̚/	/bʱi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bí	bí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bat⁶	bat⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*bliɡ/, /*briɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	佖	佖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	578	588
Phonetic component	必	必
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	邲	弼
Old Chinese	/*bliɡ/	/*briɡ/

Definitions

佖

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) dignified (according to Shuowen); undignified (according to later commentators)
(literary) to spread out; to fill

Japanese

Kanji

佖

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: びち (bichi)
Kan-on: ひつ (hitsu)
Kun: ただしい (tadashii, 佖しい)、ならぶ (narabu, 佖ぶ)
Nanori: みつ (mitsu)

Korean

Hanja

佖 • (pil) (hangeul 필, revised pil, McCune–Reischauer p'il)

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