媲

媲

媲 U+5AB2, 媲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AB2 ← 媱 [U+5AB1] CJK Unified Ideographs 媳 → [U+5AB3]

Translingual

Han character

媲 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女竹田心 (VHWP), four-corner 4641₁, composition ⿰女𣬉)

Further reading

• KangXi: page 268, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6571
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1072, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5AB2

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Chinese

trad.		媲
simp. #		媲
alternative forms		嫓 ancient

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, OC *pʰiːs) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 𣬉 ().

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pì (pi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei², pei³
• Min Dong (BUC): bê
• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): pi³

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei², pei³
    • Yale: béi, pei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei², pei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi², péi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³⁵/, /pʰei̯³³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bê
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛi²⁴²/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pi³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰei^H/

Rime
Character	媲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	匹詣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰeiH/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰeiH/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰɛjH/
Li Rong	/pʰeiH/
Wang Li	/pʰieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pai3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰiːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媲
Reading #	1/1
No.	503
Phonetic component	比
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	媲
Old Chinese	/*pʰiːs/

Definitions

媲

1. to marry, to match
2. to equal
3. to compare

Compounds

像媲美

媲偶

媲美 (pìměi)

References

• “媲”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

媲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へい (hei); ひ (hi); び (bi)
• Kun: つれあい (tsureai)

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Vietnamese

Han character

媲: Hán Nôm readings: tỉ

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References

• Nom Foundation