蔽

蔽

See also: 芘

蔽 U+853D, 蔽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-853D ← 蔼 [U+853C] CJK Unified Ideographs 蔾 → [U+853E]

Translingual

Han character

蔽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿火月大 (TFBK), four-corner 4424₈, composition ⿱艹敝(GHTJK))

Derived characters

• 虌, 𮜣

References

• KangXi: page 1056, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31888
• Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3277, character 19
• Unihan data for U+853D

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Chinese

trad.		蔽
simp. #		蔽
2nd round simp.		芘

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 *peds) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai³
• Min Nan (POJ): pè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bai³
    • Yale: bai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pè
    • Tâi-lô: pè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pe²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pe⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /piᴇi^H/

Rime
Character	蔽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	必袂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piajH/
Li Rong	/piɛiH/
Wang Li	/pĭɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pe[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*peds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pjiejH ›
Old Chinese	/*pe[t]-s/
English	cover (v.)
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	蔽
Reading #	1/1
No.	627
Phonetic component	敝
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	蔽
Old Chinese	/*peds/

Definitions

蔽

1. to cover; to hide; to conceal
2. to summarize; to sum up

Compounds

一言以蔽之 (yīyán yǐ bì zhī) 一言蔽之 (yīyánbìzhī) 古木蔽天 壅蔽 (yōngbì) 屏蔽 (píngbì) 屏蔽罐 幽蔽 建蔽率 扞蔽 掩蔽 (yǎnbì) 掩蔽部 (yǎnbìbù) 旌旗蔽天 旌旗蔽日 (jīngqíbìrì) 旌旗蔽空 泥水自蔽 蒙蔽 (méngbì) 蔽匿 蔽塞 (bìsè)

蔽天 (bìtiān) 蔽屣 蔽席 蔽日 (bìrì) 蔽月羞花 蔽空 蔽膝 (bìxī) 蔽芾 (bìfèi) 蔽身 蔽遮 蔽野 蔽面 覆蔽 遮天蔽日 (zhētiānbìrì) 遮蔽 (zhēbì) 防蔽耳目 障蔽 (zhàngbì) 干雲蔽日／干云蔽日

才蔽識淺／才蔽识浅 林蔭蔽天／林荫蔽天 浮雲蔽日／浮云蔽日 濃蔭蔽空／浓荫蔽空 烏雲蔽日／乌云蔽日 蔭蔽／荫蔽 (yīnbì) 蔽形術／蔽形术 蔽獄／蔽狱 蔽聰塞明／蔽聪塞明 蔽賢／蔽贤 (bìxián) 蔽賢寵頑／蔽贤宠顽 蔽身處／蔽身处 蔽體／蔽体 衣不蔽體／衣不蔽体 錮蔽／锢蔽 隱天蔽日／隐天蔽日 隱蔽／隐蔽 (yǐnbì) 隱蔽性／隐蔽性

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Japanese

Kanji

蔽

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. cover, hide, conceal

Readings

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• Kun: おおう (ōu, 蔽う)

Compounds

Compounds

• 隠蔽(いんぺい) (inpei): concealment
• 掩蔽(えんぺい) (enpei): concealment, masking, cloaking
• 遮蔽(しゃへい) (shahei): shield (from sunlight, or human eyes)

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Korean

Hanja

蔽 • (pye, byeol, bul) (hangeul 폐, 별, 불, revised pye, byeol, bul, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, pul, Yale phyey, pyel, pul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔽: Hán Việt readings: tế[1][2][3][4], phất[3][4]
蔽: Nôm readings: tế[1]

1. chữ Hán form of tế (“protect, hide”).

References

1. Trần (2004).
2. Trần (1999).
3. Nguyễn (1974).
4. Thiều Chửu (1942).