璧

See also: 壁
璧 U+74A7, 璧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-74A7
← 璦
[U+74A6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 璨 →
[U+74A8]

Translingual

Han character

璧 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一土戈 (SJMGI), four-corner 70103, composition ⿱辟玉)

Derived characters
  • 𬉭

References
  • KangXi: page 742, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1142, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+74A7

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 璧

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 璧
Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming) Libian (compiled in Qing)
Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts Clerical script
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 *peɡ) : phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 玉 – a type of jade.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 璧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 清 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 必益切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /piᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /piɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /piajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /piɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /pĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 bik1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 璧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjiek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pek/
English circular jade insignium

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 璧
Reading # 1/1
No. 676
Phonetic
component		 辟
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 辟
Old
Chinese		 /*peɡ/

Definitions

璧

  1. jade annulus

Compounds
  • 中西合璧 (zhōngxīhébì)
  • 反璧
  • 合璧 (hébì)
  • 和氏璧 (Héshìbì)
  • 和璧 (Hébì)
  • 和璧隋珠
  • 圭璧
  • 垂璧
  • 夜光璧
  • 奉璧
  • 完璧 (wánbì)
  • 寒璧
  • 尺璧
  • 拱璧
  • 捐金抵璧
  • 日月合璧
  • 珍同拱璧
  • 珠沉璧碎
  • 璧人 (bìrén)
  • 璧合珠聯／璧合珠联
  • 璧合珠連／璧合珠连
  • 璧璫／璧珰
  • 璧謝／璧谢 (bìxiè)
  • 璧趙／璧赵
  • 璧還／璧还 (bìhuán)
  • 白璧無瑕／白璧无瑕 (báibì-wúxiá)
  • 白璧青蠅／白璧青蝇
  • 破璧毀珪／破璧毁珪
  • 秦庭歸璧／秦庭归璧
  • 連城璧／连城璧
  • 連珠合璧／连珠合璧
  • 連璧／连璧
  • 遺珠棄璧／遗珠弃璧
  • 還珠返璧／还珠返璧
  • 銜璧／衔璧
  • 面縛銜璧／面缚衔璧
  • 餘珍璧謝／余珍璧谢

Japanese

Kanji
璧

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. piece of jade used in ancient China

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with the visually similar 壁.

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 璧 (MC piᴇk̚). Recorded as Middle Korean 벽〮 (pyék) (Yale: pyék) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 璧 (eumhun 구슬 벽 (guseul byeok))

  1. Hanja form? of 벽 (“jade”).

Compounds
Compounds

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

Vietnamese

Han character

璧: Hán Nôm readings: bích, bệch, bịch, vách

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