憋

憋

憋 U+618B, 憋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-618B ← 憊 [U+618A] CJK Unified Ideographs 憌 → [U+618C]

Translingual

Han character

憋 (radical 61, 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火大心 (FKP), four-corner 9733₀, composition ⿱敝心)

References

• KangXi: page 402, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11197
• Dae Jaweon: page 742, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2342, character 3
• Unihan data for U+618B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		憋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敝) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蔽	*peds
鄨	*peds, *ped
鷩	*peds, *ped
彆	*peds, *peːd
潎	*pʰeds, *pʰed
斃	*beds, *bed
敝	*beds, *bed
幣	*beds
弊	*beds
鱉	*ped
虌	*ped
憋	*ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳	*bed, *pʰeːd
撇	*pʰeːd
撆	*pʰeːd
暼	*pʰeːd
蹩	*beːd
襒	*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ped, *pʰed, *peːd) : phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biē (bie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bit³
• Min Nan (POJ): piat / pih / peh / peeh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: biē
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄝ
    • Wade–Giles: pieh¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bie
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bit³
    • Yale: bit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bid³
    • IPA ^(key): /piːt̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piat
    • Tâi-lô: piat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛt̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pih
    • Tâi-lô: pih
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /piʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peh
    • Tâi-lô: peh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /peʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /peʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peeh
    • Tâi-lô: peeh
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛʔ³²/

Note:

• piat - literary;
• pih/peh - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /piᴇt̚/, /pʰiᴇt̚/▼

Rime
Character	憋	憋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	薛 (81)	薛 (81)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	并列切	芳滅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇt̚/	/pʰiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛt̚/	/pʰiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæt̚/	/pʰjæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piat̚/	/pʰiat̚/
Li Rong	/piɛt̚/	/pʰiɛt̚/
Wang Li	/pĭɛt̚/	/pʰĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛt̚/	/pʰi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bie	pie

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ped/, /*pʰed/, /*peːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	憋	憋	憋
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	640	643	648
Phonetic component	敝	敝	敝
Rime group	月	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷩	瞥	㢼
Old Chinese	/*ped/	/*pʰed/	/*peːd/

Definitions

憋

1. to hold; to suppress inner feelings; to hold back inner feelings

   憋氣 / 憋气  ―  biēqì  ―  to hold one's breath

   他早就憋了一肚子的火。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Tā zǎojiù biē le yīdùzi de huǒ. [Pinyin]

   He had suppressed a lot of anger for a long time.

2. to suffocate

   差點憋死 / 差点憋死  ―  chādiǎn biē sǐ  ―  almost suffocate to death

3. impatient

Compounds

㑳憋憋 刁決古憋／刁决古憋 劣憋 古憋 憋不住 憋劣 憋十 憋噪

憋尿 (biēniào) 憋屈 (biēqu) 憋悶／憋闷 (biēmen) 憋憋懆懆 憋憋焦焦 憋懆 憋拗 憋支支

憋死貓／憋死猫 憋氣／憋气 (biēqì) 憋著勁兒／憋著劲儿 歪憋 焦憋 窩憋／窝憋 胸悶憋氣／胸闷憋气 脾憋

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Japanese

Kanji

憋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へつ (hetsu), へち (hechi)
• Kun: せつかち (setsukachi)

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Korean

Hanja

憋 • (gyeol) (hangeul 결, revised yeol, McCune–Reischauer yŏl, Yale yel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

憋 (biệt)

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