霹

霹 U+9739, 霹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9739 ← 霸 [U+9738] CJK Unified Ideographs 霺 → [U+973A]

Translingual

Han character

霹 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 一月尸口十 (MBSRJ), four-corner 1064₁, composition ⿱雨辟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1379, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42491
• Dae Jaweon: page 1888, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4080, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9739

Chinese

trad.		霹
simp. #		霹

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	*beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	*breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟	*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦	*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰeːɡ) : semantic 雨 + phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pī (pi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pik¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): pék
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phiak / phek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pī
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pi
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi¹
    • Yale: pī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pi
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pik¹
    • Yale: pīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: pig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɪk̚⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: pék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛiʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiak
    • Tâi-lô: phiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phek
    • Tâi-lô: phik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pheg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: phek

Rime
Character	霹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	普擊切
Baxter	phek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/pʰek̚/
Wang Li	/pʰiek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pik1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰeːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	霹
Reading #	1/1
No.	692
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	霹
Old Chinese	/*pʰeːɡ/
Notes	古作闢歴

Definitions

霹

1. Used in 霹靂／霹雳 (pīlì).
2. of thunder, to strike

Compounds

• 晴天霹靂／晴天霹雳 (qíngtiānpīlì)
• 焦霹靂／焦霹雳
• 霹空
• 霹誣／霹诬
• 霹雷 (pīléi)
• 霹靂／霹雳 (pīlì)
• 霹靂之聲／霹雳之声
• 霹靂小組／霹雳小组
• 霹靂尖／霹雳尖
• 霹靂引／霹雳引
• 霹靂弦／霹雳弦
• 霹靂戰／霹雳战
• 霹靂手／霹雳手
• 霹靂火／霹雳火
• 霹靂炮／霹雳炮
• 霹靂舞／霹雳舞 (pīlìwǔ)
• 霹靂行動／霹雳行动
• 霹靂袋／霹雳袋
• 霹靂說／霹雳说
• 霹靂車／霹雳车
• 青天霹靂／青天霹雳

 

Japanese

Kanji

霹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. heavy thunder
2. (of lightning) to strike, to fall

Readings

• Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku)
• Kan-on: へき (heki)
• Kun: はためく (hatameku, 霹めく); かみなり (kaminari, 霹)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 霹 (MC phek).

Historical readings

• Recorded as Middle Korean 펵〮 (Yale: phyék) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
• Recorded as Middle Korean 벽〮 (pyék) (Yale: pyék) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pjʌ̹k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [벽]

Hanja

Wikisource

霹 (eumhun 벼락 벽 (byeorak byeok))

1. Hanja form^? of 벽 (“thunder”).

Compounds

• 벽력 (霹靂, byeongnyeok, “thunder; bolt”)
• 청천벽력 (靑天霹靂, cheongcheonbyeongnyeok, “bolt from the blue”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]