Chinese edit

 
green jade; bluish green; blue
green jade; bluish green; blue; jade
to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind
trad. (碧落)
simp. #(碧落)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (1) (37)
Final () (124) (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter pjiek lak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pwiᴇk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʷiɛk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuæk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pwiajk̚/ /lak̚/
Li
Rong
/piuɛk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/pĭwɛk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯wɛk̚/ /lɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bi luò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bik1 lok6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
luò
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjæk › ‹ lak ›
Old
Chinese
/*prak/ /*kə.rˁak/
English light blue fall (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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 219 221 3880
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*praɡ/ /*preɡ/ /*ɡ·raːɡ/

Noun edit

碧落

  1. (literary, Taoism) sky; blue sky

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
へき
Jinmeiyō
らく
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Noun edit

(へき)(らく) (hekiraku

  1. blue sky
    Synonyms: 青空 (aozora), 碧空 (hekikū), 碧天 (hekiten)
  2. (figurative) a far off place