陂

陂 U+9642, 陂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9642 ← 陁 [U+9641] CJK Unified Ideographs 陃 → [U+9643]

Translingual

Han character

陂 (radical 170, 阜+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓中木竹水 (NLDHE), four-corner 7424₇, composition ⿰阝皮)

Derived characters

• 𤚆, 𨧦

References

• KangXi: page 1348, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41603
• Dae Jaweon: page 1851, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4124, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9642

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		陂

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
陂	*pral, *prals
詖	*pral, *prals
彼	*pralʔ
柀	*pralʔ
佊	*pralʔ, *prals
貱	*prals
跛	*prals, *paːlʔ
披	*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹	*pʰral
帔	*pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍	*pʰral
耚	*pʰral
狓	*pʰral
翍	*pʰral
旇	*pʰral, *brals
秛	*pʰral, *pʰrals
紴	*pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮	*bral
疲	*bral
被	*bralʔ, *brals
髲	*brals
鞁	*brals
骳	*mbralʔ
波	*paːl
碆	*paːl, *baːl
菠	*paːl
簸	*paːlʔ, *paːls
駊	*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗	*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡	*pʰaːl
玻	*pʰaːl
破	*pʰaːls
婆	*baːl
蔢	*baːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pral, *prals): semantic 阜 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bēi, pí

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟ, ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pî
• Min Nan (POJ): pi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: bēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
    • Wade–Giles: pei1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bei
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: pí
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei¹
    • Yale: bēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pî
    • Hakka Romanization System: bi´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pi²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pi
    • Tâi-lô: pi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: py
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pi³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /pˠiᴇ/

Rime
Character	陂
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	彼爲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/piɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiə̆/
Li Rong	/pje/
Wang Li	/pǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/pie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*p(r)a[j]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pral/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	陂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bēi
Middle Chinese	‹ pje ›
Old Chinese	/*p(r)a[j]/
English	river bank; dike
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	陂
Reading #	1/2
No.	9688
Phonetic component	皮
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	陂
Old Chinese	/*pral/

Definitions

陂

1. (literary) hillside; hillslope
2. (literary) pool; pond
3. (literary) bank of a pond

Compounds

• 千頃陂／千顷陂
• 柳陂 (Liǔbēi)

• 澤陂／泽陂
• 陂塘 (bēitáng)

• 陂池 (bēichí)
• 高陂 (Gāobēi)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pí (pi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: pí
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pei⁴
    • Yale: pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹/

Definitions

陂

1. Used in place names.

Compounds

• 團陂／团陂 (Tuánpí)

• 黃陂／黄陂 (Huángpí)

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pō (po¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): po¹, bo¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: pō
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: po
    • Tongyong Pinyin: po
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰwɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: po¹, bo¹
    • Yale: pō, bō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: po¹, bo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: po¹, bo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔː⁵⁵/, /pɔː⁵⁵/

Definitions

陂

1. Only used in 陂陀.

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: pi4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei³
    • Yale: bei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pˠiᴇ^H/

Rime
Character	陂
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	彼義切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/piɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiə̆H/
Li Rong	/pjeH/
Wang Li	/pǐeH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*prals/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	陂
Reading #	2/2
No.	9696
Phonetic component	皮
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	賁
Old Chinese	/*prals/

Definitions

陂

1. ^† slanting; crooked; oblique

Compounds

• 無偏無陂／无偏无陂

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05528
• “陂”, 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

陂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: は (ha); ば (ba); ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: は (ha); ひ (hi)
• Kun: つつみ (tsutsumi, 陂)

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Korean

Hanja

陂 • (pi, pa) (hangeul 피, 파, revised pi, pa, McCune–Reischauer p'i, pa, Yale phi, pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

陂: Hán Việt readings: bi, bí, pha
陂: Nôm readings: be, bê, pha

1. Hán tự form of bí (“slanted”).
2. Nôm form of bê (“damaged”).