邲

邲

邲 U+90B2, 邲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90B2 ← 邱 [U+90B1] CJK Unified Ideographs 邳 → [U+90B3]

Translingual

Han character

邲 (radical 163, 邑+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心竹弓中 (PHNL), four-corner 3702₇, composition ⿰必⻏)

References

• KangXi: page 1269, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39339
• Dae Jaweon: page 1768, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3764, character 4
• Unihan data for U+90B2

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		邲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (必) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
泌	*mpriɡs, *priɡ, *bliɡ
秘	*mpriɡs
毖	*priɡs
閟	*priɡs
柲	*priɡs, *bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
鉍	*priɡs, *priɡ
邲	*priɡs, *bliɡ, *briɡ
覕	*pliŋs, *mbliːɡ
咇	*bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
苾	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
馝	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
飶	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
鴓	*mbliːɡ
鮅	*pliɡ, *bliɡ
必	*pliɡ
珌	*pliɡ
佖	*bliɡ, *briɡ
駜	*bliɡ, *briɡ
怭	*bliɡ
妼	*bliɡ
宓	*mriɡ, *mliɡ
樒	*mriɡ
密	*mriɡ
蔤	*mriɡ
滵	*mriɡ
蜜	*mliɡ
謐	*mliɡ
榓	*mliɡ
淧	*mliɡ
瑟	*smriɡ, *smriɡ
璱	*sriɡ
飋	*sriɡ
虙	*blɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *priɡs, *bliɡ, *briɡ) : phonetic 必 (OC *pliɡ) + semantic 邑 (“city; town”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: pih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei³
    • Yale: bei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi³
    • IPA ^(key): /pei̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pˠiɪ^H/, /biɪt̚/, /bˠiɪt̚/▼

Rime
Character	邲	邲	邲
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)	質 (48)	質 (49)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III	III	Chongniu III
Fanqie	兵媚切	毗必切	房密切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiɪH/	/biɪt̚/	/bˠiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiH/	/bit̚/	/bᵚit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piɪH/	/bjet̚/	/biet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiH/	/bit̚/	/bjit̚/
Li Rong	/pjiH/	/biĕt̚/	/bjĕt̚/
Wang Li	/piH/	/bĭĕt̚/	/bĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/piH/	/bʱi̯ĕt̚/	/bʱi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì	bí	bí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ri[t]/, /*[b]i[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*priɡs/, /*bliɡ/, /*briɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邲	邲
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bit ›	‹ bjit ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ri[t]/	/*[b]i[t]/
English	[place name]	[place name]
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	邲	邲	邲
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	558	574	587
Phonetic component	必	必	必
Rime group	至	質	質
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	祕	邲	弼
Old Chinese	/*priɡs/	/*bliɡ/	/*briɡ/

Definitions

邲

1. Used in place names. (A battle site north of Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.)
2. A surname​.
3. good-looking (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Compounds

邲之戰／邲之战

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Japanese

Kanji

邲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ひつ (hitsu), びち (bichi), ひ (hi)