觱沸

Chinese

		fever; tartar horn	boil
trad. (觱沸)		觱	沸
simp. #(觱沸)		觱	沸
alternative forms		滭沸／𰛡沸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bìfèi

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄈㄟˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìfèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄈㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìfèi
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴-fei⁴
    • Yale: bì-fèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihfey
    • Palladius: бифэй (bifɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ feɪ̯⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjit pj+jH

Rime
Character	觱	沸
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	卑吉切	方味切
Baxter	pjit	pj+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piɪt̚/	/pʉiH/
Pan Wuyun	/pit̚/	/pʷɨiH/
Shao Rongfen	/pjet̚/	/piuəiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pit̚/	/pujH/
Li Rong	/piĕt̚/	/piuəiH/
Wang Li	/pĭĕt̚/	/pĭwəiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ĕt̚/	/pwe̯iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bi	fèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bat1	fei3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mpid  pɯds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fèi
Middle Chinese	‹ pjɨjH ›
Old Chinese	/*Nə.p[u][t]-s/
English	boil (v.)
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	觱	沸
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	701	3301
Phonetic component	觱	弗
Rime group	質	隊
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	必	沸
Old Chinese	/*mpid/	/*pɯds/

Noun

觱沸

1. (literary) springwater bubbling