秕

See also: 粃

秕	U+79D5, 秕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79D5

← 秔
[U+79D4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

秖 →
[U+79D6]

Translingual

Han character

秕 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木心心 (HDPP), four-corner 2191₀, composition ⿰禾比)

Related characters

粃 (Variant form of 秕 in Chinese)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 850, character 28
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24958
Dae Jaweon: page 1274, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2593, character 8
Unihan data for U+79D5

Chinese

trad.		秕
simp. ^#		秕
alternative forms		粃／秕𥝓 ⿰米匕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 秕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
梐	piː, biːʔ
狴	*piː
悂	piː, pʰi
螕	*piː
鎞	*piː
蓖	*piː
篦	piː, bis
批	*pʰiː
砒	*pʰiː
鈚	pʰiː, bi
磇	*pʰiː
媲	*pʰiːs
笓	*biː
膍	biː, bi
陛	*biːʔ
仳	pʰeʔ, piʔ, bi, briʔ
吡	pʰeʔ, piʔ, *biɡ
紕	be, pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
比	piʔ, pis, bi, bis, *biɡ
妣	piʔ, pis
秕	*piʔ
沘	piʔ, bi
枇	piʔ, bi, *bis
粊	*pris
庇	*pis
屁	*pʰis
琵	*bi
毗	*bi
貔	*bi
豼	*bi
蚍	*bi
芘	bi, bis
肶	*bi
魮	*bi
阰	*bi
坒	bis, biɡ
玭	*bin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *piʔ): semantic 禾 + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bǐ (bi³)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bei²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bǐ
  - Wade–Giles: pi³
  - Yale: bǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bii
  - Palladius: би (bi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bei²
  - Yale: béi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bei²
  - Guangdong Romanization: béi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pí
  - Tâi-lô: pí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pie
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pi⁵³/

Middle Chinese: pjijX

Rime
Character	秕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	卑履切
Baxter	pjijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piɪ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/pi^X/
Shao Rongfen	/pjɪ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pi^X/
Li Rong	/pi^X/
Wang Li	/pi^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pijʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*piʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	秕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ pjij^X ›
Old Chinese	/*pijʔ/
English	chaff; petty
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	秕
Reading #	1/1
No.	513
Phonetic component	比
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	匕
Old Chinese	/*piʔ/

Definitions

秕

empty or unplump grain
(literary) bad; evil

Compounds

秕子 (bǐzi)
秕政 (bǐzhèng)
秕殼草 / 秕壳草
秕滓
秕稗
秕糠 (bǐkāng)
秕謬 / 秕谬
糠秕 (kāngbǐ)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03088
“秕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

秕

(Hyōgai kanji)

empty grain husk; chaff

Readings

Go-on: ひ (hi)
Kan-on: ひ (hi)
Kun: しいな (shīna)

Noun

Kanji in this term
秕
しいな Hyōgai
kun'yomi

秕(しいな) • (shīna) ^{←しひな (sifina)^?}

Alternative form of 粃.

Korean

Hanja

秕 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

秕: Hán Nôm readings: bỉ

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References

Nom Foundation