狴

狴 U+72F4, 狴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-72F4 ← 狳 [U+72F3] CJK Unified Ideographs 狵 → [U+72F5]

Translingual

Han character

狴 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大竹心心土 (KHPPG), four-corner 4121₄, composition ⿰犭坒)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 711, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20410
• Dae Jaweon: page 1123, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1348, character 7
• Unihan data for U+72F4

Chinese

trad.		狴
simp. #		狴

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／形声, OC *piː) : semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 坒 (OC *bis, *biɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pē / pě

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bai⁶
    • Yale: baih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pē
    • Tâi-lô: pē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pe
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pe²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pě
    • Tâi-lô: pě
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pe²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bi²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: pej

Rime
Character	狴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	邊兮切
Baxter	pej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pei/
Pan Wuyun	/pei/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛj/
Li Rong	/pei/
Wang Li	/piei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/piei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*piː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	狴
Reading #	1/1
No.	493
Phonetic component	比
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	豍
Old Chinese	/*piː/

Definitions

狴

1. (literary, Chinese mythology) legendary tiger-like beast whose image used to be painted on prison doors
2. (literary, figurative) prison

Compounds

• 狴犴 (bì'àn)

 

Japanese

Kanji

狴

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へい (hei)、はい (hai)、ばい (bai)

Korean

Hanja

狴 • (pye) (hangeul 폐, revised pye, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, Yale phyey)

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