匕

See also: ヒ, ビ, ピ, 七, and 𠤎
匕 U+5315, 匕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5315
← 匔
[U+5314] 		CJK Unified IdeographsCategory:CJK Unified Ideographs block#*0000021269 化 →
[U+5316]
Category:Han script characters#%20
Category:Character boxes with images#*0000012052
⼔ U+2F14, ⼔
KANGXI RADICAL SPOON
← ⼓
[U+2F13] 		Kangxi RadicalsCategory:Kangxi Radicals block#*0000012052 ⼕ →
[U+2F15]
Category:Han script characters#%20

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

Han character

Category:Han character radicals#%20

匕Category:Translingual lemmas#匕00匕Category:Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#匕00匕Category:Translingual symbols#匕00匕Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#匕00匕Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#匕00匕Category:Pages with entries#匕Category:Pages with 5 entries#匕Category:Pages with raw sortkeys#匕 (Kangxi radical 21, 匕+0, 2 strokes, Cangjie input 山竹 (UH), four-corner 22710, composition ⿺乚丿(GJKH) or ⿺乚一(T))

Category:Han char with multiple idsCategory:Han script characters#匕00匕Category:Translingual Han characters with definition lines#匕
  1. Kangxi radical #21, ⼔.

Derived characters

See also

  • ヒ (Japanese katakana)

Further reading

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

Chinese

trad. 匕
simp. # 匕
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匕
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形)Category:Han pictograms#匕00 – a spoon. Unrelated to 老, in which it represents a walking cane. Also unrelated to the top component of 眞, in which it represents a knife or dagger. Unrelated to 比, in which represents a person.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 匕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 卑履切
Baxter pjijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /piɪX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /piX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pjɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /piX/
Li
Rong		 /piX/
Wang
Li		 /piX/
Bernhard
Karlgren		 /piX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 bei2
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 484
Phonetic
component		 匕
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 匕
Old
Chinese		 /*pilʔ/
Category:Chinese lemmas#匕00Category:Mandarin lemmas#匕00Category:Cantonese lemmas#匕00Category:Hakka lemmas#匕00Category:Hokkien lemmas#匕00Category:Teochew lemmas#匕00Category:Middle Chinese lemmas#匕00Category:Old Chinese lemmas#匕00Category:Chinese hanzi#匕00Category:Mandarin hanzi#匕00Category:Cantonese hanzi#匕00Category:Hakka hanzi#匕00Category:Hokkien hanzi#匕00Category:Teochew hanzi#匕00Category:Middle Chinese hanzi#匕00Category:Old Chinese hanzi#匕00Category:Chinese nouns#匕00Category:Mandarin nouns#匕00Category:Cantonese nouns#匕00Category:Hakka nouns#匕00Category:Hokkien nouns#匕00Category:Teochew nouns#匕00Category:Middle Chinese nouns#匕00Category:Old Chinese nouns#匕00Category:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation#匕00Category:Chinese terms spelled with 匕#匕00

Definitions

匕Category:Chinese lemmas#匕00Category:Chinese hanzi#匕00Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#匕00Category:Pages with entries#匕Category:Pages with 5 entries#匕Category:Pages with raw sortkeys#匕

  1. (historicalCategory:Chinese terms with historical senses#匕00) a kind of spoon in ancient China
  2. (literaryCategory:Chinese literary terms#匕00) dagger
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard ChineseCategory:Chinese terms with obsolete senses#匕00) arrow
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard ChineseCategory:Chinese terms with obsolete senses#匕00) people
  5. (historical dictionaries onlyCategory:Chinese terms with obsolete senses#匕00) Original form of 妣 (bǐ, “deceased mother”).
  6. Occasionally used as an iteration marker.

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 匕Category:Chinese links with redundant wikilinks#匕Category:Chinese links with redundant alt parameters#匕 – see 牝 (“(of an animal) female”).
(This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 牝).
Category:Chinese lemmas#匕00Category:Mandarin lemmas#匕00Category:Cantonese lemmas#匕00Category:Eastern Min lemmas#匕00Category:Hokkien lemmas#匕00Category:Teochew lemmas#匕00Category:Puxian Min lemmas#匕00Category:Middle Chinese lemmas#匕00Category:Old Chinese lemmas#匕00Category:Chinese hanzi#匕00Category:Mandarin hanzi#匕00Category:Cantonese hanzi#匕00Category:Eastern Min hanzi#匕00Category:Hokkien hanzi#匕00Category:Teochew hanzi#匕00Category:Puxian Min hanzi#匕00Category:Middle Chinese hanzi#匕00Category:Old Chinese hanzi#匕00Category:Chinese adjectives#匕00Category:Mandarin adjectives#匕00Category:Cantonese adjectives#匕00Category:Eastern Min adjectives#匕00Category:Hokkien adjectives#匕00Category:Teochew adjectives#匕00Category:Puxian Min adjectives#匕00Category:Middle Chinese adjectives#匕00Category:Old Chinese adjectives#匕00Category:Chinese nouns#匕00Category:Mandarin nouns#匕00Category:Cantonese nouns#匕00Category:Eastern Min nouns#匕00Category:Hokkien nouns#匕00Category:Teochew nouns#匕00Category:Puxian Min nouns#匕00Category:Middle Chinese nouns#匕00Category:Old Chinese nouns#匕00Category:Chinese terms spelled with 匕#匕00Category:Chinese variant forms#匕00Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#匕00Category:Pages with entries#匕Category:Pages with 5 entries#匕Category:Pages with raw sortkeys#匕

Japanese

Kanji

匕

(Hyōgai kanji)

Category:Japanese kanji#匕00Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#匕00Category:Japanese hyōgai kanji#匕00

Readings

Compounds

Definitions

Kanji in this term
匕
ひ
Hyōgai
on'yomi
Category:Japanese terms spelled with 匕 read as ひ#ひCategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#ひCategory:Japanese terms read with on'yomi#ひ
Kanji in this term
匕
かい
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Category:Japanese terms spelled with 匕 read as かい#かいCategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#かいCategory:Japanese terms read with kun'yomi#かい
Kanji in this term
匕
さじ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Category:Japanese terms spelled with 匕 read as さじ#さし'Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#さし'Category:Japanese terms read with kun'yomi#さし'
For pronunciation and definitions of 匕 – see the following entry.
【匙ひ】H Category:Japanese affixes#ひCategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#ひCategory:Japanese lemmas#ひCategory:Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji#ひCategory:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#ひCategory:Japanese terms spelled with 匕#ひCategory:Japanese single-kanji terms#ひ
[affix] spoon, scoop
【匙かい】H Category:Japanese nouns#かいCategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#かいCategory:Japanese lemmas#かいCategory:Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji#かいCategory:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#かいCategory:Japanese terms spelled with 匕#かいCategory:Japanese single-kanji terms#かいCategory:Japanese nouns#かいCategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#かいCategory:Japanese lemmas#かいCategory:Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji#かいCategory:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#かいCategory:Japanese terms spelled with 匕#かいCategory:Japanese single-kanji terms#かい
[noun] (obsolete) a scoop for food
[noun] (archaic, rare) a wooden sword for training
【匙さじ】H Category:Japanese nouns#さし'Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#さし'Category:Japanese lemmas#さし'Category:Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji#さし'Category:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#さし'Category:Japanese terms spelled with 匕#さし'Category:Japanese single-kanji terms#さし'Category:Japanese nouns#さし'Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#さし'Category:Japanese lemmas#さし'Category:Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji#さし'Category:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#さし'Category:Japanese terms spelled with 匕#さし'Category:Japanese single-kanji terms#さし'Category:Japanese nouns#さし'Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#さし'Category:Japanese lemmas#さし'Category:Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji#さし'Category:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#さし'Category:Japanese terms spelled with 匕#さし'Category:Japanese single-kanji terms#さし'Category:Japanese nouns#さし'Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#さし'Category:Japanese lemmas#さし'Category:Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji#さし'Category:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#さし'Category:Japanese terms spelled with 匕#さし'Category:Japanese single-kanji terms#さし'
[noun] spoon, scoop used for food
[noun] more specifically, a spoon or scoop used for compounding medicine
[noun] by extension, medicine
[noun] by further extension, a doctor
(This term, 匕, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
Category:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#し'Category:Pages with entries#匕Category:Pages with 5 entries#匕Category:Pages with raw sortkeys#匕

References

Korean

Hanja

匕 (eumhun 비수 비 (bisu bi))Category:Korean lemmas#비Category:Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#비Category:Korean hanja#비Category:Korean entries with incorrect language header#비Category:Pages with entries#匕Category:Pages with 5 entries#匕Category:Pages with raw sortkeys#匕

  1. spoon
  2. dagger

Vietnamese

Han character

匕: Hán Việt readings: chủy/chuỷ, trủy/truỷ, tỷCategory:Vietnamese Chữ Hán#匕00 Category:Vietnamese lemmas Category:Vietnamese Han characters

匕 is used as an iteration marker here such as in the line, 埃匕𠳺匕麻𦖑 (Ai ai lẳng lặng mà nghe)
  1. In Vietnamese Hán Nôm texts, 匕 is used as an iteration marker.
  2. chữ Hán form of chủy (“Kangxi radical 21—‘spoon’”)Category:Vietnamese Chữ Hán
Category:CJKV radicals#%20 Category:Vietnamese iteration marks#匕00
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