幖

幖 U+5E56, 幖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E56 ← 幕 [U+5E55] CJK Unified Ideographs 幗 → [U+5E57]

Translingual

Han character

幖 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中月一田火 (LBMWF), composition ⿰巾票)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 336, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9053
• Dae Jaweon: page 643, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 752, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5E56

Chinese

simp. and trad.		幖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
標	*pew, *pewʔ
鏢	*pew, *pʰew
瘭	*pew
幖	*pew
熛	*pew
蔈	*pew
膘	*prew, *pʰewʔ, *bewʔ, *spewʔ
褾	*pewʔ
票	*pʰew
飄	*pʰew, *bew
漂	*pʰew, *pʰews
螵	*pʰew, *bew
瞟	*pʰew, *pʰewʔ
嫖	*pʰew, *pʰews
旚	*pʰew
僄	*pʰew, *pʰews
慓	*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
彯	*pʰew, *pʰews
摽	*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
翲	*pʰew, *pʰews
嘌	*pʰew
縹	*pʰewʔ
醥	*pʰewʔ
顠	*pʰewʔ, *bewʔ
篻	*pʰewʔ, *mbew
剽	*pʰews, *bew
勡	*pʰews
薸	*bew
瓢	*bew
鰾	*bewʔ
驃	*bews

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biāo (biao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): biu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biao
    • Wade–Giles: piao¹
    • Yale: byāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biau
    • Palladius: бяо (bjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: biu¹
    • Yale: bīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: biu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: biu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pjiew

Rime
Character	幖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	甫遙切
Baxter	pjiew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piaw/
Li Rong	/piɛu/
Wang Li	/pĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	biu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	幖
Reading #	1/1
No.	9745
Phonetic component	票
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	飊
Old Chinese	/*pew/

Definitions

幖

1. (literary) mark; sign

   alt. forms: 標／标 (biāo)

2. (literary) flag; banner
3. (literary) to indicate with words, pictures, etc.
4. (literary) Alternative form of 縹／缥 (“Classifier for volumes.”)

Compounds

• 幖幖 (biāobiāo)

 

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 102

Japanese

Kanji

幖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ひょう (hyō)
• Kun: しるし (shirushi); はた (hata); のおり (nōri)