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避

避

Translingual

Han character

避 (radical 162 辵+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸口十 (YSRJ), four-corner 30304)

  1. avoid
  2. turn aside
  3. escape
  4. hide

References

  • KangXi: page 1266, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39163
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1763, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3891, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+907F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 避

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 避
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 毗義切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /biᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bjɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /biə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /bieH/
Wang
Li		 /bǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 避
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjieH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ek-s/
English avoid

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 避
Reading # 1/1
No. 667
Phonetic
component		 辟
Rime
group		 賜
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 避
Old
Chinese		 /*beɡs/

Verb

避

  1. to avoid

Japanese

Kanji

避

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

避 • ‎(pi)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 피 (revised: pi, McCune-Reischauer: p'i, Yale: phi)
  • Name (hangeul): 피할()
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Vietnamese

Han character

避 (tị)

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