僻

僻	U+50FB, 僻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50FB

← 僺
[U+50FA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

僼 →
[U+50FC]

Translingual

Han character

僻 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人尸口十 (OSRJ), four-corner 2024₁, composition ⿰亻辟)

References

KangXi: page 118, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1166
Dae Jaweon: page 250, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 229, character 5
Unihan data for U+50FB

Chinese

simp. and trad.		僻
2nd round simp.		辟
alternative forms		𠈳𠒱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僻

**Small seal script**
s05842

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L28539	L28540	L28541

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone 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

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pì (pi⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pik¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): phiah / phiak / phek
(Teochew, Peng'im): piah⁴
Wu (Wiktionary): phiq (T4)

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/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: pik¹
  - Yale: pīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: pig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɪk̚⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiah
  - Tâi-lô: phiah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phiaq
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiaʔ⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰiaʔ³²/
- (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/

Note:

phiah - vernacular;
phiak/phek - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: piah⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phiah
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiaʔ²/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: phiq (T4)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɪʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /pʰiᴇk̚/, /pʰek̚/

Rime
Character	僻	僻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	清 (123)	青 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	芳辟切	普擊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiæk̚/	/pʰɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰiajk̚/	/pʰɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/pʰiɛk̚/	/pʰek̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭɛk̚/	/pʰiek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ɛk̚/	/pʰiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pi	pi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pik¹	pik¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰek/
(Zhengzhang): /*pʰeɡ/, /*pʰeːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	僻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pì
Middle Chinese	‹ phjiek ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰek/
English	perverse
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	僻	僻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	680	697
Phonetic component	辟	辟
Rime group	錫	錫
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	僻	霹
Old Chinese	/*pʰeɡ/	/*pʰeːɡ/

Definitions

僻

^† to avoid; to evade
^† unorthodox
remote; out of the way
偏僻 ― piānpì ― remote; out of the way
荒僻 ― huāngpì ― desolate
uncommon; rare
生僻 ― shēngpì ― uncommon; rare (characters, words, etc.)
僻字 ― pìzì ― rare characters
eccentric; odd; peculiar
孤僻 ― gūpì ― peculiar; eccentric

Compounds

乖僻 (guāipì)
偏僻 (piānpì)
僻事
僻儒
僻典
僻地 (pìdì)
僻壤 (pìrǎng)
僻巷 (pìxiàng)
僻格剌子
僻然
僻路

僻道
僻陋
冷僻 (lěngpì)
孤僻 (gūpì)
怪僻 (guàipì)
摘僻
生僻 (shēngpì)
荒僻 (huāngpì)
邪僻 (xiépì)
僻壤窮鄉／僻壤穷乡
僻淨／僻净

僻處／僻处
僻處一方／僻处一方
僻見／僻见
僻遠／僻远 (pìyuǎn)
僻靜／僻静 (pìjìng)
放誕詭僻／放诞诡僻
窮山僻壤／穷山僻壤
窮鄉僻壤／穷乡僻壤 (qióngxiāngpìrǎng)
鄉僻／乡僻
靜僻／静僻

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bèi (bei⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bui⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bèi
  - Wade–Giles: pei⁴
  - Yale: bèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bey
  - Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: bui⁶
  - Yale: buih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bui⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bui⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːi̯²²/

Definitions

僻

Alternative form of 背 (bèi, “remote; secluded; out-of-the-way”).

Compounds

僻角

僻靜／僻静 (pìjìng)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00247
“僻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

僻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): へき (heki); ひ (hi); へい (hei)
Kun: ひがむ (higamu, 僻む)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 僻 (MC pʰiᴇk̚, pʰek̚). Recorded as Middle Korean 벽 (pyek) (Yale: pyek) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

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

Hanja

Wikisource僻 (eumhun 후미질 벽 (humijil byeok))

Hanja form^? of 벽 (“remote; out of the way”).
Hanja form^? of 벽 (“uncommon; rare”).

Compounds

벽자 (僻字, byeokja, “a rare Chinese character”)
괴벽 (乖僻, goebyeok)
벽지 (僻地, byeokji)

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

僻: Hán Nôm readings: tịch

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References

Nom Foundation