貔

貔	U+8C94, 貔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C94

← 貓
[U+8C93]

CJK Unified Ideographs

貕 →
[U+8C95]

Translingual

Han character

貔 (radical 153, 豸+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹田心 (BHHWP), four-corner 2621₁, composition ⿰豸𣬉)

References

KangXi: page 1202, character 38
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36606
Dae Jaweon: page 1664, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3916, character 8
Unihan data for U+8C94

Chinese

simp. and trad.		貔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (比) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
梐	piː, biːʔ
狴	*piː
悂	piː, pʰi
螕	*piː
鎞	*piː
蓖	*piː
篦	piː, bis
批	*pʰiː
砒	*pʰiː
鈚	pʰiː, bi
磇	*pʰiː
媲	*pʰiːs
笓	*biː
膍	biː, bi
陛	*biːʔ
仳	pʰeʔ, piʔ, bi, briʔ
吡	pʰeʔ, piʔ, *biɡ
紕	be, pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
比	piʔ, pis, bi, bis, *biɡ
妣	piʔ, pis
秕	*piʔ
沘	piʔ, bi
枇	piʔ, bi, *bis
粊	*pris
庇	*pis
屁	*pʰis
琵	*bi
毗	*bi
貔	*bi
豼	*bi
蚍	*bi
芘	bi, bis
肶	*bi
魮	*bi
阰	*bi
坒	bis, biɡ
玭	*bin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bi) : semantic 豸 + phonetic 𣬉.

Etymology

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan དབྱི (dbyi, “lynx”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pí (pi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴
Min Nan (POJ): pî
Wu (Wiktionary): bi (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: pí
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
  - Wade–Giles: p'ih²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pí
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: pei⁴
  - Yale: pèih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: péi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pî
  - Tâi-lô: pî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pi²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pi²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pi²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi²³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: bi (T3)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /b̻i²³/

Middle Chinese: /biɪ/▼

Rime
Character	貔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	房脂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/bi/
Shao Rongfen	/bjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bi/
Li Rong	/bi/
Wang Li	/bi/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pí

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ij/

(Zhengzhang): /*bi/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	貔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pí
Middle Chinese	‹ bjij ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ij/
English	kind of wild cat
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	貔
Reading #	1/1
No.	527
Phonetic component	比
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𣬈
Old Chinese	/*bi/

Definitions

貔

^† panther-like feline
- 實墉實壑，實畝實籍，獻其貔皮，赤豹黃羆。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  实墉实壑，实亩实籍，献其貔皮，赤豹黄罴。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Shí yōng shí hè, shí mǔ shí jí, xiàn qí pí pí, chì bào huáng pí. [Pinyin]
  Making strong his walls, and deep his moats,
  Laying out his fields, regulating his revenues,
  Presenting his skins of the white fox,
  With those of the red panther and the yellow grisly bear.

Compounds

虎貔
貔子 (pízi)

貔子窩港／貔子窝港
貔虎

貔貅 (píxiū)

Japanese

Kanji

貔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

brave heraldic beast

Readings

Go-on: び (bi)
Kan-on: ひ (hi)

Compounds

貔 (ヒ)貅 (キュウ) (Hikyū, “Pixiu”)

Korean

Hanja

貔 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

fox, leopard, panther

Vietnamese

Han character

貔 (tì)

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