壁

See also: 璧
壁 U+58C1, 壁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58C1
← 壀
[U+58C0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 壂 →
[U+58C2]

Translingual

Han character

壁 (radical 32, 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸十土 (SJG), four-corner 70104, composition ⿱辟土)

References
  • KangXi: page 240, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5516
  • Dae Jaweon: page 479, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 494, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+58C1

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 壁
variant forms 坒 second round simplified

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peːɡ) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) – an earthen wall.

Pronunciation
Note:
  • biáh - vernacular;
  • pék - literary.
Note:
  • piah - vernacular;
  • piak/pek - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 壁
Mandarin Beijing /pi⁵¹/
Harbin /pi⁵³/
Tianjin /pi⁵³/
Jinan /pi²¹/
Qingdao /pi⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /pi³¹²/
Xi'an /pi²¹/
Xining /pji⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pi¹³/
Lanzhou /pi¹³/
Ürümqi /pi²¹³/
Wuhan /pi²¹³/
Chengdu /pi³¹/
Guiyang /pi²¹/
Kunming /pi³¹/
Nanjing /piʔ⁵/
Hefei /piəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /piəʔ²/
Pingyao /piʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /piəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /piɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /piəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /piəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /pi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /piʔ²¹/
Tunxi /pi⁵/
Xiang Changsha /pi²⁴/
/pia²⁴/
Xiangtan /piɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /piɑʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /piak̚¹/
Taoyuan /piɑk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pek̚⁵/
Nanning /pek̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pik̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pik̚³²/
/piaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /piɛʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pi²⁴/
/pia²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /piaʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbek̚⁵/
/ʔbia⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 壁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 錫 (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 北激切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pek̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pek̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pɛjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /pek̚/
Wang
Li		 /piek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /piek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bi
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 壁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.pˁek/
English house wall

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 壁
Reading # 1/1
No. 688
Phonetic
component		 辟
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 壁
Old
Chinese		 /*peːɡ/

Definitions

壁

  1. wall; partition
  2. rampart; defensive wall
  3. cliff; precipice
    • 峭壁  ―  qiàobì  ―  cliff; steep
  4. something resembling a wall; lumen; surface
  5. (astronomy) (～宿) Wall (Chinese constellation)

Compounds
Derived terms from 壁

Japanese

Kanji
壁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
壁
かべ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

壁 (hiragana かべ, rōmaji kabe)

  1. wall; barrier
    • 2011 May 14, “アクア・マドール [Aqua Madoll]”, in Beginner's Edition 1, Konami:
      水 (みず)をあやつる魔 (ま)法 (ほう)使 (つか)い。分 (ぶ)厚 (あつ)い水 (みず)の壁 (かべ)をつくり敵 (てき)を押 (お)しつぶす。
      Mizu o ayatsuru mahōtsukai. Buatsui mizu no kabe o tsukuri teki o oshitsubusu.
      A water-manipulating magician who crushes his enemies with his massive water walls.

Coordinate terms

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

壁 • (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壁 (bích, bệch, bịch, vách)

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