碧落

Chinese

green jade; bluish green; blue
green jade; bluish green; blue; jade
 
 to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind
trad. (碧落) 碧 落
simp. #(碧落) 碧 落

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 碧 落
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 昔 (124) 鐸 (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 彼役切 盧各切
Baxter pjiek lak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pwiᴇk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʷiɛk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piuæk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pwiajk̚/ /lak̚/
Li
Rong 		/piuɛk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Wang
Li 		/pĭwɛk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pi̯wɛk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bi luò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bik1 lok6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 碧 落
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bì luò
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjæk › ‹ lak ›
Old
Chinese 		/*prak/ /*kə.rˁak/
English light blue fall (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 碧 碧 落
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 219 221 3880
Phonetic
component 		白 白 各
Rime
group 		鐸 鐸 鐸
Rime
subdivision 		0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		碧 碧 落
Old
Chinese 		/*praɡ/ /*preɡ/ /*ɡ·raːɡ/

Noun

碧落

  1. (literary, Taoism) sky; blue sky

Synonyms

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
碧 落
へき
Jinmeiyō 		らく
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Noun

碧(へき)落(らく) • (hekiraku) 

  1. blue sky
    Synonyms: 青空 (“aozora”), 碧空 (“hekikū”), 碧天 (“hekiten”)
  2. (figurative) a far off place
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