髀

髀	U+9AC0, 髀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AC0

← 骿
[U+9ABF]

CJK Unified Ideographs

髁 →
[U+9AC1]

Translingual

Han character

髀 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月月竹田十 (BBHWJ), four-corner 7624₀, composition ⿰骨卑)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1449, character 35
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45205
Dae Jaweon: page 1976, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4414, character 2
Unihan data for U+9AC0

Chinese

trad.		髀
simp. ^#		髀
alternative forms		肶脾 Cantonese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
捭	*preːʔ
牌	breː, breː
郫	breː, bre, *be
蠯	breː, be, *breːŋʔ
猈	breːʔ, breː
稗	*breːs
粺	*breːs
𥱼	*breː
豍	*peː
箄	peː, pe, *peʔ
錍	pʰeː, pe
睥	*pʰeːs
渒	pʰeːs, pe
鼙	*beː
鞞	beː, pe, peʔ, peːŋʔ
椑	beː, pe, beɡ, beːɡ
崥	beː, peʔ
髀	beːʔ, peʔ, *piʔ
卑	*pe
鵯	pe, pʰiɡ
裨	pe, be
痺	*pe
碑	*pre
婢	peʔ, beʔ
諀	*pʰeʔ
脾	*be
埤	*be
陴	*be
蜱	be, mbew
焷	*be
螷	be, breːŋʔ
庳	*beʔ
琕	*biːŋ
萆	beɡ, slɯʔ
綼	biɡ, peːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ): semantic 骨 (“bone”) + phonetic 卑 (OC *pe).

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan དཔྱི (dpyi, “hip”) (Schuessler, 2007) and Japhug tɯχpɣi (“thigh”) (Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): bei²

(Taishan, Wiktionary): bei²
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): pí

(Meixian, Guangdong): bi³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pí

(Teochew, Peng'im): bi³ / bi²

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: bei²
  - Yale: béi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bei²
  - Guangdong Romanization: béi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: bei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pí
  - Hakka Romanization System: bi^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: bi³
  - Sinological IPA: /pi³¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: bi³
  - Sinological IPA: /pi³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pí
  - Tâi-lô: pí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pie
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pi⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bi³ / bi²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pì / pí
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹³/, /pi⁵²/

Middle Chinese: pjeX, pjijX, bejX

Rime
Character	髀	髀	髀
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	支 (13)	脂 (15)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	IV
Fanqie	并弭切	卑履切	傍禮切
Baxter	pjeX	pjijX	bejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiᴇ^X/	/piɪ^X/	/bei^X/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiɛ^X/	/pi^X/	/bei^X/
Shao Rongfen	/piɛ^X/	/pjɪ^X/	/bɛi^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiə̆^X/	/pi^X/	/bɛj^X/
Li Rong	/pje^X/	/pi^X/	/bei^X/
Wang Li	/pǐe^X/	/pi^X/	/biei^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pie̯^X/	/pi^X/	/bʱiei^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐ	bǐ	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei²	bei²	bai⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m-pˤeʔ/, /*peʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*beːʔ/, /*peʔ/, /*piʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	髀	髀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bej^X ›	‹ pjie^X ›
Old Chinese	/*m-pˁeʔ/	/*peʔ/
English	femur	femur, haunch
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	髀	髀	髀
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	367	381	396
Phonetic component	卑	卑	卑
Rime group	支	支	脂
Rime subdivision	0	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	陛	𢔌	匕
Old Chinese	/*beːʔ/	/*peʔ/	/*piʔ/

Definitions

髀

(literary or Cantonese, Hakka) thigh
雞髀／鸡髀 [Cantonese] ― gai¹ bei² [Jyutping] ― chicken leg
- 公子拊髀大笑曰：固哉子之云也！ [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: Western Jin, 魯褒, 錢神論
  Gōngzǐ fǔ bì dàxiào yuē: gù zāi zǐ zhī yún yě! [Pinyin]
  The son [of the Sikong] slapped his thigh and burst out laughing, saying: How stubborn, what you said was!
- 1841, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S.W. Williams, page 164:
  
  燒羊肶要用心 [Cantonese, trad.]
  烧羊肶要用心 [Cantonese, simp.]
  siu¹ joeng⁴ bei² jiu³ jung⁶ sam¹ [Jyutping]
  To roast a leg of mutton much care is needed.
(literary) thighbone

Compounds

周髀
周髀算經 / 周髀算经
大腳髀 / 大脚髀
大髀
拊髀
搏髀
撫髀 / 抚髀 (fǔbì)
腳髀 / 脚髀
雞髀 / 鸡髀
髀樞 / 髀枢
髀肉
髀肉復生 / 髀肉复生 (bìròufùshēng)
髀骨 (bìgǔ)
髀骶

Japanese

Kanji

髀

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ひ (hi)、へい (hei)
Kun: もも (momo)

Korean

Hanja

髀 • (bi, pye) (hangeul 비, 폐, revised bi, pye, McCune–Reischauer pi, p'ye, Yale pi, phyey)

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