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 (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: 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		秕
alternative forms		粃 𥝓 ⿰米匕

Glyph origin

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, OC *piʔ): semantic 禾 + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐ (bi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei²
• Min Nan (POJ): pí

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

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• Middle Chinese: /piɪ^X/

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/piX/
Shao Rongfen	/pjɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piX/
Li Rong	/piX/
Wang Li	/piX/
Bernard Karlgren	/piX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐ

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pijʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*piʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	秕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ pjijX ›
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

1. empty or unplump grain
2. (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–

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Japanese

Kanji

秕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. 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 Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

秕(しいな) • (shīna)  (historical kana しひな)

1. Alternative form of 粃.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

秕 (bỉ)

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References

• Nom Foundation