筆

筆 (radical 118, 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹中手 (HLQ), four-corner 8850₇, composition ⿱⺮聿)

• KangXi: page 882, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25987
• Dae Jaweon: page 1310, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2970, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7B46

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *prud) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 聿 (OC *b·lud, “writing brush”) – a hand holding a brush 聿. The bamboo (竹) refers to the material of traditional Chinese brushes.

Benedict (1972) surmises that this might be a loan from Austro-Tai into Sino-Tibetan; cf. Proto-Austronesian *bulut (“hairy filaments of certain plants, husk”) (Cebuano bulut).

筆

1. writing brush
2. pen; pencil

   你有筆嗎，記一下這個電話號碼。 [MSC, trad.]
   你有笔吗，记一下这个电话号码。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ yǒu bǐ ma, jì yīxià zhè ge diànhuà hàomǎ. [Pinyin]

   Do you have a pen to write this phone number?

3. ^† to write; to compose
4. Classifier for writing or drawing: stroke (of Chinese characters, in a painting, etc.)

   你這個字寫錯了，這裡少了一筆。 [MSC, trad.]
   你这个字写错了，这里少了一笔。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ zhè ge zì xiě cuò le, zhèlǐ shào le yī bǐ. [Pinyin]

   The character you have miswritten lacks one stroke here.

5. Classifier for sums of money and deals. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   我會盡早還給你這筆錢。 [MSC, trad.]
   我会尽早还给你这笔钱。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ huì jìnzǎo háigěi nǐ zhè bǐ qián. [Pinyin]

   I will return the money as soon as possible.

Others

• → Buryat: ᠪᠢᠷ (ᠪᠢᠷ) / биирэ (biire)
• → Khmer: ពិត (pɨt, “small Chinese-style writing brush”)
• → Korean: 붓 (but, “writing brush”)
• → Manchu: ᡶᡳ (fi, “brush”), ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝ (bithe, “book”), ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝᠰᡳ (bithesi, “scribe”)
  • → Chinese: 筆帖式／笔帖式 (bǐtièshì, “scribe during the Qing Dynasty”)
• → Tibetan: པིར (pir, “writing brush, pen”)
  • → Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠷ (bir) / бийр (bijr)
• → Turkic: [Term?]
  • Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃‎ (biti-, “to write”), 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰏‎ (bitig, “inscription, book”)
  • → Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠬᠦ (bičikü) / бичих (bičih), ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ (bičig) / бичиг (bičig)
• → Zhuang: bit

• “Entry #8842”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: ひち (hichi)
• Kan-on: ひつ (hitsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: ふで (fude, 筆, Jōyō); ふんで (funde, 筆); ふみて (fumite, 筆)
• Nanori: くし (kushi)

Shift in pronunciation from funde below.[1] Now the most common pronunciation in modern Japanese.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ふで [fùdé] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝde̞]

筆 (hiragana ふで, rōmaji fude)

1. a writing brush, a painting brush, a pen
2. writing:
   1. the act of writing
   2. something written
   3. handwriting, how someone writes

The pen sense is more commonly expressed using the English-derived term ペン (pen).

Shift in pronunciation from fumite below. Listed with this reading in the 観智院 (Kanchi-in) edition of the 11th- or 12th-century 類聚名義抄 (Ruiju Myōgishō) dictionary.[1]

Superseded by the fude reading above in modern Japanese.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟̃ᵝnde̞]

筆 (hiragana ふんで, rōmaji funde)

1. (obsolete) same as for fude above: brush; pen; writing

Compound of 文 (fumi, “writing”) +‎ 手 (te, “hand”). Appears with this reading in the Man'yōshū, circa 759.

Superseded by the fude reading above in modern Japanese.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝmʲite̞]

筆 (hiragana ふみて, rōmaji fumite)

1. (obsolete) same as for fude above: brush; pen; writing

/pitu/ → /fitu/ → /hitu/

From Middle Chinese 筆 ( pit , “writing brush”). Compare modern Hakka and Min Nan pit, Mandarin bǐ.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) ひつ​ [hìtsúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [çit͡sɨᵝ]

筆 (hiragana ひつ, rōmaji hitsu)

1. a brush, a pen, a writing or drawing implement
2. the mark made by a brush or pen
3. writing or drawing with a brush or pen
4. an allotment of land, such as for agriculture or housing (from the way that a description of the land and the owner would be written down in the survey register)

筆 • (pil) (hangeul 필, McCune–Reischauer p'il, Yale phil)

1. writing brush
2. write
3. stroke

筆 (bút)

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