薜

薜 U+859C, 薜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-859C ← 薛 [U+859B] CJK Unified Ideographs 薝 → [U+859D]

Translingual

Han character

薜 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿尸口十 (TSRJ), four-corner 4464₁ or 4424₁, composition ⿱艹辟)

Derived characters

• 𭗳, 𭒯, 蘗, 𧄀, 𮓒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1061, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32125
• Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3308, character 14
• Unihan data for U+859C

Chinese

trad.		薜
simp. #		薜
alternative forms		蘗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 薜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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 *beːɡs, *preːɡ) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai⁶ / bei⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pē

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pi³ / pêg⁴

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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 / bei⁶
    • Yale: baih / beih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai⁶ / bei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei⁶ / béi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯²²/, /pei̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pē
    • Tâi-lô: pē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pe
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pe²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pi³ / pêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phì / phek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi²¹³/, /pʰek̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: bejH

Rime
Character	薜
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	蒲計切
Baxter	bejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/beiH/
Pan Wuyun	/beiH/
Shao Rongfen	/bɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɛjH/
Li Rong	/beiH/
Wang Li	/bieiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*beːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	薜
Reading #	1/2
No.	663
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	薜
Old Chinese	/*beːɡs/

Definitions

薜

1. Used in 薜荔 (bìlì) and 薜羅／薜罗.
2. ^‡ type of grass
3. a surname.

Compounds

• 薜帶 / 薜带
• 薜戶 / 薜户
• 薜羅 / 薜罗
• 薜荔 (bìlì)
• 薜衣

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bò (bo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bò
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bò
    • Wade–Giles: po⁴
    • Yale: bwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: boh
    • Palladius: бо (bo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baak³
    • Yale: baak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: peak

Rime
Character	薜
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	麥 (119)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	博厄切
Baxter	peak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/pɛk̚/
Wang Li	/pæk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bak1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*preːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	薜
Reading #	2/2
No.	670
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	檗
Old Chinese	/*preːɡ/

Definitions

薜

1. Angelica sinensis (type of medicinal herb)

   Synonym: 當歸 / 当归 (dāngguī)

2. mountain hemp (Ribes manshuricum)

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bó (bo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bó
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bó
    • Wade–Giles: po²
    • Yale: bwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
    • Palladius: бо (bo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵/

Definitions

薜

1. Alternative form of 劈 (“to rupture”)

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bài (bai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bài
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bài
    • Wade–Giles: pai⁴
    • Yale: bài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bay
    • Palladius: бай (baj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

薜

1. ^‡ type of aquatic plant

Pronunciation 5

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pì (pi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pì
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pì
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi⁴
    • Yale: pì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pih
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵¹/

Definitions

薜

1. Alternative form of 僻 (“remote; secluded”)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03573
• “薜”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

薜

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ばい (bai)、ひゃく (hyaku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku)、へい (hei)
• On: へき (heki)
• Kun: とうき (tōki)、やまあさ (yamaasa, 薜あさ)、かたよる (katayoru)

Korean

Hanja

薜 • (byeok, pye) (hangeul 벽, 폐, revised byeok, pye, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk, p'ye, Yale pyek, phyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薜: Hán Nôm readings: bệ

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References

• Nom Foundation