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碧

碧 U+78A7, &#30887;
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78A7
← 碦
[U+78A6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 碨 →
[U+78A8]

Translingual

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Han character

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碧 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一日一口 (MAMR), four-corner 16601, composition ⿱珀石)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 833, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24334
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1249, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2441, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+78A7

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 碧

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (白) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
怕 *pʰraːɡs, *pʰraːɡ
帕 *pʰraːɡs, *mbraːd
粕 *pʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
胉 *pʰaːɡ
泊 *baːɡ
箔 *baːɡ
魄 *tʰaːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
皕 *prɯɡ
伯 *praːɡ
百 *praːɡ
迫 *praːɡ
敀 *praːɡ, *pʰraːɡ
柏 *praːɡ
湐 *praːɡ
拍 *pʰraːɡ
珀 *pʰraːɡ
皛 *pʰraːɡ, *ɡeːwʔ
洦 *mpʰraːɡ, *mbraːɡ
白 *braːɡ
帛 *braːɡ
舶 *braːɡ
鮊 *braːɡ
陌 *mbraːɡ
帞 *mbraːɡ
袹 *mbraːɡ
蛨 *mbraːɡ
貊 *mbraːɡ
佰 *mbraːɡ
銆 *mbraːɡ
碧 *praɡ, *preɡ
咟 *ɦmreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *praɡ, *preɡ) : semantic 王 (“jade”) + semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 白 (OC *braːɡ).

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 碧
Mandarin Beijing /pi⁵¹/
Harbin /pi⁵³/
Tianjin /pi⁵³/
Jinan /pi²¹/
Qingdao /pi⁴²/
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/
Xiangtan /pʰi²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /piʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /pit̚¹/
Taoyuan /pit̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pek̚⁵/
Nanning /pek̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pik̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pʰik̚³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pʰɛiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pi²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /pʰek̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔbek̚⁵/
Rime
Character 碧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 昔 (124)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彼役切
Baxter pjiek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pwiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʷiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piuæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pwiajk̚/
Li
Rong 		/piuɛk̚/
Wang
Li 		/pĭwɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pi̯wɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bik1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 碧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjæk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*prak/
English light blue

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 碧 碧
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 219 221
Phonetic
component 		白 白
Rime
group 		鐸 鐸
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		碧 碧
Old
Chinese 		/*praɡ/ /*preɡ/

Definitions

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碧

  1. green jade
  2. blue-green

Synonyms

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  • (blue-green):

Compounds

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Descendants

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  • → Vietnamese: biếc (“bluish green; azure blue”)

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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碧

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. blue
  2. green

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Compounds

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Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 碧 (MC pjiek). Recorded as Middle Korean 벽 (pyek) (Yale: pyek) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

碧 (eumhun 푸를 벽 (pureul byeok))

  1. Hanja form? of 벽 (“blue-green”).

Compounds

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Compounds

References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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碧: Hán Nôm readings: bích, biếc

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