彆

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彆	U+5F46, 彆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F46

← 彅
[U+5F45]

CJK Unified Ideographs

彇 →
[U+5F47]

Translingual

Han character

彆 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火大弓 (FKN), four-corner 9772₇, composition ⿱敝弓)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 360, character 39
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9859
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1002, character 7
Unihan data for U+5F46

Chinese

别: "to dissuade"
trad.		彆/別^*
simp.		别^*/彆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敝) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
蔽	*peds
鄨	peds, ped
鷩	peds, ped
彆	peds, peːd
潎	pʰeds, pʰed
斃	beds, bed
敝	beds, bed
幣	*beds
弊	*beds
鱉	*ped
虌	*ped
憋	ped, pʰed, *peːd
瞥	pʰed, pʰeːd
鐅	pʰed, pʰeːd
嫳	bed, pʰeːd
撇	*pʰeːd
撆	*pʰeːd
暼	*pʰeːd
蹩	*beːd
襒	*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *peds, *peːd) : phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 弓 (“bow”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biè (bie⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bit³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biè
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biè
  - Wade–Giles: pieh⁴
  - Yale: byè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bieh
  - Palladius: бе (be)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bit³
  - Yale: bit
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: bid³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚³/

Middle Chinese: pjiejH

Rime
Character	彆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	必袂切
Baxter	pjiejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piaj^H/
Li Rong	/piɛi^H/
Wang Li	/pĭɛi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*peds/, /*peːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	彆	彆
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	630	649
Phonetic component	敝	敝
Rime group	祭	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蔽	㢼
Old Chinese	/*peds/	/*peːd/

Definitions

彆

ends of bow
to make somebody change their opinion; to dissuade
to hold back

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

彆 (eumhun 활 뒤틀릴 별 (hwal dwiteullil byeol))

hanja form^? of 별 (“warped bow”)