苾

苾	U+82FE, 苾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82FE

← 苽
[U+82FD]

CJK Unified Ideographs

苿 →
[U+82FF]

Translingual

Han character

苾 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿心竹 (TPH), four-corner 4433₀, composition ⿱艹必)

Derived characters

𭈺, 𧪋, 𮏡, 𦸞

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1025, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30828
Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3197, character 3
Unihan data for U+82FE

Chinese

trad.		苾
simp. ^#		苾
alternative forms		馝

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): bat⁶

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: bat⁶
  - Yale: baht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚²/

Middle Chinese: bjit, bet

Rime
Character	苾	苾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	毗必切	蒲結切
Baxter	bjit	bet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪt̚/	/bet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bit̚/	/bet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/bjet̚/	/bɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bit̚/	/bɛt̚/
Li Rong	/biĕt̚/	/bet̚/
Wang Li	/bĭĕt̚/	/biet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ĕt̚/	/bʱiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bí	bié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bat⁶	bit⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤi[t]/

(Zhengzhang): /*bliːɡ/, /*bliɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	苾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bet ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁi[t]/
English	fragrant
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	苾	苾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	561	577
Phonetic component	必	必
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蹩	邲
Old Chinese	/*bliːɡ/	/*bliɡ/

Definitions

苾

(literary) fragrant; aromatic
a surname

Compounds

苾勃 (bìbó)
苾芻 / 苾刍 (bìchú)
苾苾
苾蒭 / 苾𫇴 (bìchú)

Japanese

Kanji

苾

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: びち (bichi)
Kan-on: ひつ (hitsu)
Kun: かおる (kaoru, 苾る)

Compounds

苾蒭(びっしゅ) (bisshu), 苾芻(びっしゅ) (bisshu), 苾蒭(ひっすう) (hissū, “bhikkhu”)
苾堂(ひつどう) (hitsudō)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
苾
びち Hyōgai
goon

IPA^(key): [bʲit͡ɕi]

Affix

苾(びち) • (bichi)

only used in 苾蒭

Korean

Hanja

苾 • (pil) (hangeul 필, revised pil, McCune–Reischauer p'il, Yale phil)

fragrance