See also:
U+4E15, 丕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E15

[U+4E14]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4E16]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 1, 一+4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一火一 (MFM), four-corner 10109, composition )

Derived characters

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 77, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30
  • Dae Jaweon: page 155, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 15, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4E15

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

𠦓
⿱不于

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character



References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰrɯ): phonetic (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ') + semantic

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (2)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter phij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰiɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰji/
Li
Rong
/pʰji/
Wang
Li
/pʰi/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/pʰi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pei1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ phij ›
Old
Chinese
/*pʰrə/
English great

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. 1007
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰrɯ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. large; grand
  2. to act on; to follow
  3. A particle.
  4. a surname

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of
  2. used in 可丕丕 (“heart beating”)

Compounds

  • 丕丕
  • 丕基
  • 丕林島 / 丕林岛
  • 丕業 / 丕业
  • 丕烈
  • 丕績 / 丕绩
  • 丕變 / 丕变 (pībiàn)
  • 丕靈 / 丕灵
  • 丕顯 / 丕显 (pīxiǎn)
  • 春丕峽 / 春丕峡
  • 氣丕丕 / 气丕丕

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. large; grand

Readings

  • Go-on: (hi)
  • Kan-on: (hi)
  • Kun: おおきい (ōkii, 丕きい)おほきい (ofokii, 丕きい, historical)

Etymology

Kanji in this term

Hyōgai
on'yomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [çi]

Proper noun

() • (Hi

  1. an orthographic borrowing of the Chinese surname , Pi

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun (keul bi))

  1. hanja form? of (large; grand)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: phi ((phô)(bi)(thiết))[1][2][3][4][5]
: Nôm readings: vầy[1][2][3][6][4][5][7], vậy[1][2][3][4][5][7], phỉ[1][2][3][6], bậy[3][6][5], phơi[1], chăng[3], chẳng[3], phi[6]

  1. chữ Hán form of phi (large; grand)
  2. chữ Nôm form of vầy (such; like this)
  3. chữ Nôm form of vậy (so; thus)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Trần (2004).
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bonet (1899).
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Génibrel (1898).
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Hồ (1976).
  7. 7.0 7.1 Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).