蔽

See also: 芘

蔽	U+853D, 蔽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-853D

← 蔼
[U+853C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蔾 →
[U+853E]

Translingual

Han character

蔽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿火月大 (TFBK), four-corner 4424₈, composition ⿱艹敝(GHTJK))

Derived characters

虌, 𮜣

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1056, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31888
Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3277, character 19
Unihan data for U+853D

Chinese

trad.		蔽
simp. ^#		蔽
2nd round simp.		芘

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蔽	*peds
鄨	peds, ped
鷩	peds, ped
彆	peds, peːd
潎	pʰeds, pʰed
斃	beds, bed
敝	beds, bed
幣	*beds
弊	*beds
鱉	*ped
虌	*ped
憋	ped, pʰed, *peːd
瞥	pʰed, pʰeːd
鐅	pʰed, pʰeːd
嫳	bed, pʰeːd
撇	*pʰeːd
撆	*pʰeːd
暼	*pʰeːd
蹩	*beːd
襒	*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *peds): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bai³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pè

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: bai³
  - Yale: bai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: bei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pè
  - Tâi-lô: pè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pex
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pe²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pe⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pe¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe²¹/

Middle Chinese: pjiejH

Rime
Character	蔽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	必袂切
Baxter	pjiejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piaj^H/
Li Rong	/piɛi^H/
Wang Li	/pĭɛi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pe[t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*peds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pjiej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*pe[t]-s/
English	cover (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.