和氏璧

Chinese

		mix together; peace; harmony mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm	clan name; maiden name	piece of jade with hole in centre
simp. and trad. (和氏璧)		和	氏	璧

Etymology

Named after 卞和 (Biàn Hé), who discovered this jade.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Héshìbì

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄕˋ ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁴ si⁶ bik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Héshìbì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄕˋ ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Héshìhbì
    • Wade–Giles: Ho²-shih⁴-pi⁴
    • Yale: Hé-shr̀-bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hershyhbih
    • Palladius: Хэшиби (Xɛšibi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo⁴ si⁶ bik¹
    • Yale: wòh sih bīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁴ si⁶ bik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo⁴ xi⁶ big¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²¹ siː²² pɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: hwa dzyeX pjiek

Rime
Character	和	氏	璧
Reading #	1/2	3/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	常 (25)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)	支 (11)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III	III
Fanqie	戸戈切	承紙切	必益切
Baxter	hwa	dzyeX	pjiek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuɑ/	/d͡ʑiᴇX/	/piᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuɑ/	/d͡ʑiɛX/	/piɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑ/	/d͡ʑjɛX/	/piæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwa/	/d͡ʑiə̆X/	/piajk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑ/	/ʑieX/	/piɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑ/	/ʑǐeX/	/pĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuɑ/	/ʑie̯X/	/pi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huó	shì	bi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wo4	si6	bik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ˤoj  k.deʔ  pek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːl  ɡjeʔ  peɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	和	氏	璧
Reading #	1/2	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé	shì	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ hwa ›	‹ dzyeX ›	‹ pjiek ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ˁoj/	/*k.deʔ/	/*pek/
English	harmonious	clan	circular jade insignium
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	和	氏	璧
Reading #	1/2	3/3	1/1
No.	4932	11523	676
Phonetic component	禾	氏	辟
Rime group	歌	支	錫
Rime subdivision	3	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	和	是	辟
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːl/	/*ɡjeʔ/	/*peɡ/
Notes		甲金文象人俯伏手臂下據着地（右下菱形象封土， 指胙土命氏，金文省爲圓點），以表對氏族份地的禮敬， 後轉註爲坁祇， 非乁聲

Proper noun

和氏璧

1. Mr. He's jade

   • 和氏璧，天下所共傳寶也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     和氏璧，天下所共传宝也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Héshìbì, tiānxià suǒ gòng chuán bǎo yě. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• 和璧 (Hébì)
• 和氏之璧

See also

• 完璧歸趙／完璧归赵 (wánbìguīzhào)