癖

癖	U+7656, 癖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7656

← 癕
[U+7655]

CJK Unified Ideographs

癗 →
[U+7657]

Translingual

Han character

癖 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 大尸口十 (KSRJ), four-corner 0014₁, composition ⿸疒辟)

References

KangXi: page 781, character 21

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22550

Dae Jaweon: page 1191, character 4

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2700, character 20

Unihan data for U+7656

Chinese

simp. and trad.		癖

Glyph origin

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, OC *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ) : semantic 疒 + phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ).

Pronunciation 1

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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pǐ
  - Wade–Giles: pʻi³
  - Yale: pǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pii
  - Palladius: пи (pi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
  - 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 Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: pék
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛiʔ²⁴/
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: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phek
  - Tâi-lô: phik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pheg
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰiɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiak
  - Tâi-lô: phiak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phiag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiak̚⁵/

Note:

phiah - vernacular;
phek/phiak - 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	癖	癖
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
(Zhengzhang): /*pʰeɡ/, /*pʰeːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	癖	癖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	681	696
Phonetic component	辟	辟
Rime group	錫	錫
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	僻	霹
Old Chinese	/*pʰeɡ/	/*pʰeːɡ/
Notes	見靈樞

Definitions

癖

craving; disposition; addiction; habit; weakness for
(traditional Chinese medicine) Alternative form of 痞 (pǐ, “lump in the abdomen; splenomegaly; indigestion”).

Compounds

Derived terms from 癖

周郎癖
嗜痂之癖
嗜痂成癖
地癖
季常癖
怪癖 (guàipǐ)

痃癖
痼癖
癖嗜
癖好 (pǐhào)
癖性 (pǐxìng)
惡癖／恶癖 (èpǐ)

潔癖／洁癖 (jiépǐ)
煙霞癖／烟霞癖
癖氣／癖气
盤龍癖／盘龙癖
筆癖／笔癖

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (癖):

→ Japanese: 癖(へき) (heki)
→ Korean: 벽(癖) (byeok)

Pronunciation 2

Min Nan (POJ): phia̍h

Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phia̍h
  - Tâi-lô: phia̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phiah
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiaʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiaʔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiaʔ¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰiaʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiaʔ⁴/

Definitions

癖

(Min Nan) measles

Compounds

出癖

Japanese

Kanji

癖

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

habit; tendency

Readings

Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku)
Kan-on: へき (heki, Jōyō)
Kun: くせ (kuse, 癖, Jōyō)

Compounds

悪癖(あくへき) (akuheki)
癇癖(かんぺき) (kanpeki)
奇癖(きへき) (kiheki)
潔癖(けっぺき) (keppeki)
痃癖(けんびき) (kenbiki)
痃癖(けんぺき), 肩癖(けんぺき) (kenpeki)
個癖(こへき) (koheki)
古癖(こへき) (koheki)
詩癖(しへき) (shiheki)
嗜癖(しへき) (shiheki)
収集癖(しゅうしゅうへき) (shūshūheki)
習癖(しゅうへき) (shūheki)
酒癖(しゅへき) (shuheki)
晶癖(しょうへき) (shōheki)
書癖(しょへき) (shoheki)
性癖(せいへき) (seiheki)
通癖(つうへき) (tsūheki)
盗癖(とうへき) (tōheki)
病癖(びょうへき) (byōheki)
洋癖(ようへき) (yōheki)
浪費癖(ろうひへき) (rōhiheki)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
癖
くせ Grade: S
kun’yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) くせ [kùséꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
IPA^(key): [kɯ̟̊ᵝse̞]

Noun

癖(くせ) • (kuse) ^{←くせ (kuse)^?}

habit; tendency
Synonym: 癖 (heki)
悪(わる)い癖(くせ)を直(なお)す
warui kuse o naosu
break a bad habit
癖(くせ)になる
kuse ni naru
become a habit
unusual trait; peculiarity
字(じ)の癖(くせ)
ji no kuse
handwriting peculiarity
a bend or distortion that cannot be easily straightened or flattened
1. kink; curl (in hair)
  髪(かみ)の癖(くせ)を直(なお)す
  kami no kuse o naosu
  to straighten out the kinks in one’s hair
2. crease (in clothing)

Derived terms

癖(くせ)ある馬(うま)に能(のう)あり (kuse aru uma ni nō ari)
癖馬(くせうま) (kuseuma)
癖毛(くせげ) (kusege)
癖(くせ)して (kuse shite)
癖地(くせち) (kusechi)
癖直(くせなお)し (kusenaoshi)
癖(くせ)に (kuse ni)
癖(くせ)になる (kuse ni naru)
曲者(くせもの), 癖者(くせもの) (kusemono)
遊(あそ)び癖(ぐせ) (asobiguse)
足癖(あしくせ) (ashikuse)
歌癖(うたぐせ) (utaguse)
女癖(おんなぐせ) (onnaguse)
書(か)き癖(ぐせ) (kakiguse)
着癖(きぐせ) (kiguse)
口癖(くちぐせ) (kuchiguse)
酒癖(さかぐせ) (sakaguse)
酒癖(さけくせ) (sakekuse), 酒癖(さけぐせ) (sakeguse)
尻癖(しりくせ) (shirikuse)
その癖(くせ) (sono kuse)
抱(だ)き癖(ぐせ) (dakiguse)
手癖(てくせ) (tekuse)
出癖(でぐせ) (deguse)
難癖(なんくせ) (nankuse)
寝癖(ねぐせ) (neguse)
一癖(ひとくせ) (hitokuse)
筆癖(ふでくせ) (fudekuse)
降(ふ)り癖(ぐせ) (furiguse)
負(ま)け癖(ぐせ) (makeguse)
怠(まな)け癖(ぐせ) (manakeguse)
読(よ)み癖(くせ) (yomikuse)

Descendants

→ Jeju: 쿠세 (kuse)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
癖
へき Grade: S
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 癖 (MC pʰiᴇk̚, pʰek̚).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) へき [héꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [he̞kʲi]

Noun

癖(へき) • (heki) ^{←へき (feki)^?}

habit; tendency
Synonym: 癖 (kuse)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 癖 (MC pʰiᴇk̚, pʰek̚).

Historical readings
Recorded as Middle Korean 펵〮 (Yale: phyék) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448. 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癖 (eumhun 버릇 벽 (beoreut byeok))

Hanja form^? of 벽 (“habit”).

Compounds

결벽 (潔癖, gyeolbyeok)
악벽 (惡癖, akbyeok)
성벽 (性癖, seongbyeok)
도벽 (盜癖, dobyeok)
괴벽 (怪癖, goebyeok)
가벽 (歌癖, gabyeok)
고벽 (古癖, gobyeok)
구벽 (口癖, gubyeok)
벽호 (癖好, byeokho)

References

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

癖

Translingual

Han character

References

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

Compounds

Descendants

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Korean

Etymology

Pronunciation

Hanja

Compounds

References