別字

See also: 别字

Chinese

Etymology 1

		other; distinguish; contrary other; distinguish; contrary; difficult; awkward; leave; depart; separate; classify; another; do not; must not; to pin	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (別字)		別	字
simp. (别字)		别	字

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biézì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄝˊ ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bit⁶ zi⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pia̍t-lī / pia̍t-jī
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁸biq-zy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biézì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄝˊ ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biézìh
    • Wade–Giles: pieh²-tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: byé-dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: byetzyh
    • Palladius: бецзы (beczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛ³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bit⁶ zi⁶
    • Yale: biht jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁹ dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bid⁶ ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚² t͡siː²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pia̍t-lī
    • Tâi-lô: pia̍t-lī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piadli
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛt̚²⁴⁻² li⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɛt̚⁴⁻³² li²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pia̍t-jī
    • Tâi-lô: pia̍t-jī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piadji
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛt̚¹²¹⁻²¹ d͡zi²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸biq-zy
    • MiniDict: bih^入 zy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵biq-zr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /biɪʔ¹¹ zz̩²³/

Noun

別字

1. typo; misspelt word or character
2. variant or alternative form of a word or character
3. (dated) another name; alias

Synonyms

• (typo):

• 白字 (báizì)
• 錯別字／错别字 (cuòbiézì)
• 錯字／错字 (cuòzì)

 

• (another name):

• 偏名 (Hokkien, Hakka)
• 別名／别名 (biémíng)
• 別號／别号 (biéhào) (dated)
• 外號／外号 (wàihào)
• 渾名／浑名 (húnmíng)
• 綽號／绰号 (chuòhào)
• 花名 (huāmíng)
• 諢名／诨名 (hùnmíng)
• 諢號／诨号 (hùnhào)
• 體號／体号 (Hokkien)

 

Etymology 2

		other; distinguish; contrary other; distinguish; contrary; difficult; awkward; leave; depart; separate; classify; another; do not; must not; to pin	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (別字)		別	字
simp. (别字)		别	字

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piat-lī

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piat-lī
    • Tâi-lô: piat-lī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piatli
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛt̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/

Verb

別字

1. (Quanzhou Hokkien) to perform glyphomancy; to tell fortunes by disassembling Chinese characters

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 測字 (“to perform glyphomancy”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		測字, 拆字, 相字
Mandarin	Beijing	測字兒
	Taiwan	測字, 拆字
	Harbin	拆字
	Yantai (Muping)	拆字兒
	Jinan	拆字兒
	Luoyang	拆字兒
	Xi'an	測字 †
	Yinchuan	測字 †
	Lanzhou	測字 †
	Xining	測字
	Ürümqi	測字
	Wuhan	測字 †
	Chengdu	測字 †
	Guiyang	測字 †
	Liuzhou	測字
	Xuzhou	測字兒
	Yangzhou	測字 †
	Nanjing	測字
	Singapore	測字
Cantonese	Guangzhou	拆字
	Dongguan	測字
Gan	Nanchang	測字
	Lichuan	測字
	Pingxiang	測字
Hakka	Meixian	拆字
	Yudu	測字 †
Huizhou	Jixi	拆字
Jin	Taiyuan	測字 †
	Xinzhou	測字 †
Northern Min	Jian'ou	測字
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	測字
Southern Min	Xiamen	拆字
	Quanzhou	別字
	Zhangzhou	拆字
	Tainan	拆字
	Singapore (Hokkien)	測字
Puxian Min	Putian	測字
	Putian (Donghai)	測字
	Putian (Jiangkou)	測字
	Putian (Nanri)	測字
	Xianyou	測字
	Xianyou (Fengting)	測字
	Xianyou (Youyang)	測字
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	拆字
Wu	Shanghai	拆字
	Shanghai (Chongming)	拆字
	Suzhou	拆字
	Danyang	測字 †
	Hangzhou	測字 † (new-style)
	Ningbo	測字 †
	Wenzhou	拆字
	Jinhua	測字 †
Xiang	Changsha	測字 † (new-style)
	Loudi	測字 †
Note	† - 測字 and 拆字 are homophonous

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 別字 – see 捌字 (“to learn to read; to know how to read”). (This term is a variant form of 捌字).

Japanese

Kanji in this term
別	字
べつ Grade: 4	じ Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

別(べつ)字(じ) • (betsuji) 

1. different character

   同形(どうけい)別字(べつじ)

   dōkei betsuji

   heteronymous character; unrelated character with an identical shape