琶

琶

琶 U+7436, 琶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7436 ← 琵 [U+7435] CJK Unified Ideographs 琷 → [U+7437]

Translingual

Han character

琶 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土日山 (MGAU), four-corner 1171₇, composition ⿱玨巴)

References

• KangXi: page 736, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21081
• Dae Jaweon: page 1147, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1119, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7436

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Chinese

trad.		琶
simp. #		琶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (巴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
巴	*praː
芭	*praː
笆	*praː, *braːʔ
豝	*praː
鈀	*praː, *pʰraː
吧	*praː, *pʰraː
蚆	*praː, *pʰraː
疤	*praː
把	*praːʔ
爸	*praːs, *baʔ
弝	*praːs
靶	*praːs
葩	*pʰraː
舥	*pʰraː
妑	*pʰraː
帊	*pʰraːs
琶	*braː
爬	*braː
杷	*braː, *braːs, *braːs
跁	*braːʔ, *braːs
耙	*braːs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pá (pa²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paa⁴
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pê / pêe

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bê⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pá
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pá
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa²
    • Yale: pá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: par
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: paa⁴
    • Yale: pàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pa⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pê
    • Tâi-lô: pê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pee
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /pe²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pêe
    • Tâi-lô: pêe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bê⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pê
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pe⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /bˠa/

Rime
Character	琶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	蒲巴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ba/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨ/
Li Rong	/ba/
Wang Li	/ba/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	paa4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*braː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	琶
Reading #	1/1
No.	116
Phonetic component	巴
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	爬
Old Chinese	/*braː/
Notes	釋名作枇杷

Definitions

琶

1. Only used in 琵琶.
2. a kind of method of playing pipa

Compounds

琵琶 (pípá) 琵琶湖 (Pípáhú) 琵琶行 琵琶襟 琵琶骨 (pípagǔ) 琶洲塔

琶音 (páyīn) 反彈琵琶／反弹琵琶 彈琵琶／弹琵琶 琵琶別抱／琵琶别抱 (pípábiébào) 琵琶舊語／琵琶旧语 琵琶蟲／琵琶虫

琵琶記／琵琶记 琵琶調／琵琶调 琵琶譜／琵琶谱 琵琶錄／琵琶录 琵琶魚／琵琶鱼 (pípáyú) 琵琶鮫／琵琶鲛

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Japanese

Kanji

琶

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. Lute

Readings

• Go-on: べ (be)
• Kan-on: は (ha)

Compounds

Compounds

• 琵琶(びわ) (biwa): biwa

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Korean

Hanja

琶 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

琶: Hán Nôm readings: bà

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