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匕

匕

匕 U+5315, 匕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5315
← 匔
[U+5314] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 化 →
[U+5316]
See also: ヒ, ビ, ピ, and 七

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

匕 (radical 21 匕+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 山竹 (UH), four-corner 22710, composition ⿺乚丿)

  1. spoon, ladle
  2. knife, dirk
  3. Kangxi radical #21, ⼔ ‎(“spoon”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 152, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2570
  • Dae Jaweon: page 342, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 261, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5315

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 匕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匕
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (化) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
訛 *ŋʷaːl
吪 *ŋʷaːl
鈋 *ŋʷaːl
囮 *lu, *ŋʷaːl
魤 *ŋʷaːl
靴 *hʷa
貨 *hŋʷaːls
花 *hʷraː
化 *hŋʷraːls
杹 *hŋʷraːls
匕 *pilʔ, *hŋʷraːls

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 匕 匕
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 脂 (15) 麻 (99)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III II
Fanqie 卑履切 呼霸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /piɪX/ /hˠuaH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /piX/ /hʷᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pjɪX/ /xuaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /piX/ /hwaɨH/
Li
Rong		 /piX/ /xuaH/
Wang
Li		 /piX/ /xwaH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /piX/ /xwaH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bǐ huà
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 匕 匕
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bǐ bǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjijX › ‹ pjijX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pijʔ/ /*pijʔ/
English ladle, spoon spoon

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 匕 匕
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 484 5329
Phonetic
component		 匕 化
Rime
group		 脂 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 匕 化
Old
Chinese		 /*pilʔ/ /*hŋʷraːls/

Definitions

匕

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References

Japanese

Kanji

匕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

匕 ‎(hiragana さじ, romaji saji)

  1. Alternative form of 匙

Korean

Hanja

匕 • ‎(bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

匕 (chuỷ)

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