髀

髀 U+9AC0, 髀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AC0 ← 骿 [U+9ABF] CJK Unified Ideographs 髁 → [U+9AC1]

Translingual

Han character

髀 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨ほね+8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月つき月がつ竹田たけだ十じゅう (BBHWJ), four-corner 7624₀, composition ⿰骨ほね卑)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1449, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45205
• Dae Jaweon: page 1976, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4414, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9AC0

Chinese

trad.		髀
simp. #		髀
alternative forms		肶 脾 Cantonese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
捭	*preːʔ
牌ぱい	*breː, *breː
郫	*breː, *bre, *be
蠯	*breː, *be, *breːŋʔ
猈	*breːʔ, *breː
稗ひえ	*breːs
粺	*breːs
𥱼	*breː
豍	*peː
箄	*peː, *pe, *peʔ
錍	*pʰeː, *pe
睥	*pʰeːs
渒	*pʰeːs, *pe
鼙	*beː
鞞	*beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ
椑	*beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ
崥	*beː, *peʔ
髀	*beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ
卑	*pe
鵯ひよどり	*pe, *pʰiɡ
裨	*pe, *be
痺しびれ	*pe
碑いしぶみ	*pre
婢	*peʔ, *beʔ
諀	*pʰeʔ
脾	*be
埤	*be
陴	*be
蜱	*be, *mbew
焷	*be
螷	*be, *breːŋʔ
庳	*beʔ
琕	*biːŋ
萆	*beɡ, *slɯʔ
綼	*biɡ, *peːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ) : semantic 骨ほね (“bone”) + phonetic 卑 (OC *pe).

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan དཔྱི (dpyi, “hip”) (Schuessler, 2007) and Japhug tɯχかいpɣi (“thigh”) (Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): bei²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): bei²

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): pí

  (Meixian, Guangdong): bi³

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bi³ / bi²

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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–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bei²
    • Yale: béi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: bei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pí
    • Hakka Romanization System: bi^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bi³
    • Sinological IPA: /pi³¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: bi³
    • Sinological IPA: /pi³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pí
    • Tâi-lô: pí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pi⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bi³ / bi²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pì / pí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹³/, /pi⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: pjeX, pjijX, bejX

Rime
Character	髀	髀	髀
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲こえ)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	並なみ (3)
Final (韻いん)	支ささえ (13)	脂あぶら (15)	齊ひとし (39)
Tone (調しらべ)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	III	IV
Fanqie	并弭切きり	卑履くつ切きり	傍はた禮れい切きり
Baxter	pjeX	pjijX	bejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiᴇX/	/piɪX/	/beiX/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiɛX/	/piX/	/beiX/
Shao Rongfen	/piɛX/	/pjɪX/	/bɛiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiə̆X/	/piX/	/bɛjX/
Li Rong	/pjeX/	/piX/	/beiX/
Wang Li	/pǐeX/	/piX/	/bieiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pie̯X/	/piX/	/bʱieiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐ	bǐ	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei2	bei2	bai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-pˤeʔ/, /*peʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beːʔ/, /*peʔ/, /*piʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	髀	髀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bejX ›	‹ pjieX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-pˁeʔ/	/*peʔ/
English	femur	femur, haunch
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	髀	髀	髀
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	367	381	396
Phonetic component	卑	卑	卑
Rime group	支ささえ	支ささえ	脂あぶら
Rime subdivision	0	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	陛	𢔌	匕
Old Chinese	/*beːʔ/	/*peʔ/	/*piʔ/

Definitions

髀

1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) thigh

   雞髀／鸡髀 [Cantonese]  ―  gai¹ bei² [Jyutping]  ―  chicken leg

   • 公子こうし拊髀大だい笑わらい曰：固かた哉子こ之これ云うん也！ [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Western Jin, 魯褒, 錢ぜに神かみ論ろん

     Gōngzǐ fǔ bì dàxiào yuē: gù zāi zǐ zhī yún yě! [Pinyin]

     The son [of the Sikong] slapped his thigh and burst out laughing, saying: How stubborn, what you said was!

   • 1841, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S.W. Williams, page 164:

     燒やき羊ひつじ肶要よう用心ようじん [Cantonese, trad.]
     烧羊ひつじ肶要よう用心ようじん [Cantonese, simp.]

     siu¹ joeng⁴ bei² jiu³ jung⁶ sam¹ [Jyutping]

     To roast a leg of mutton much care is needed.

2. (literary) thighbone

Compounds

• 周しゅう髀
• 周しゅう髀算經けい／周しゅう髀算经
• 大だい腳髀／大だい脚あし髀
• 大だい髀
• 拊髀
• 搏髀
• 撫なで髀／抚髀 (fǔbì)
• 腳髀／脚あし髀
• 雞髀／鸡髀
• 髀樞／髀枢
• 髀肉ひにく
• 髀肉ひにく復ふく生せい／髀肉ひにく复生 (bìròufùshēng)
• 髀骨 (bìgǔ)
• 髀骶

 

Japanese

Kanji

髀

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ひ (hi)、へい (hei)
• Kun: もも (momo)

Korean

Hanja

髀 • (bi, pye) (hangeul 비, 폐, revised bi, pye, McCune–Reischauer pi, p'ye, Yale pi, phyey)

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