髀

髀 U+9AC0, 髀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AC0 ← 骿 [U+9ABF] CJK Unified Ideographs 髁 → [U+9AC1]

Translingual

Han character

髀 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+8, 18 strokes, Cangjie input 月月竹田十 (BBHWJ), four-corner 7624₀, composition ⿰骨卑)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1449, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45205
• Dae Jaweon: page 1976, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4414, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9AC0

Chinese

trad.		髀
simp. #		髀
alternative forms		肶 脾 Cantonese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
捭	*preːʔ
牌	*breː, *breː
郫	*breː, *bre, *be
蠯	*breː, *be, *breːŋʔ
猈	*breːʔ, *breː
稗	*breːs
粺	*breːs
𥱼	*breː
豍	*peː
箄	*peː, *pe, *peʔ
錍	*pʰeː, *pe
睥	*pʰeːs
渒	*pʰeːs, *pe
鼙	*beː
鞞	*beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ
椑	*beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ
崥	*beː, *peʔ
髀	*beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ
卑	*pe
鵯	*pe, *pʰiɡ
裨	*pe, *be
痺	*pe
碑	*pre
婢	*peʔ, *beʔ
諀	*pʰeʔ
脾	*be
埤	*be
陴	*be
蜱	*be, *mbew
焷	*be
螷	*be, *breːŋʔ
庳	*beʔ
琕	*biːŋ
萆	*beɡ, *slɯʔ
綼	*biɡ, *peːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ): semantic 骨 (“bone”) + phonetic 卑 (OC *pe).

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan དཔྱི (dpyi, “hip”) (Schuessler, 2007) and Japhug tɯχpɣi (“thigh”) (Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): bei²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): bei²

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): pí

  (Meixian, Guangdong): bi³

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bi³ / bi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bei²
    • Yale: béi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: bei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pí
    • Hakka Romanization System: bi^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bi³
    • Sinological IPA: /pi³¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: bi³
    • Sinological IPA: /pi³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pí
    • Tâi-lô: pí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pie
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pi⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bi³ / bi²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pì / pí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹³/, /pi⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: pjeX, pjijX, bejX

Rime
Character	髀	髀	髀
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	支 (13)	脂 (15)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	IV
Fanqie	并弭切	卑履切	傍禮切
Baxter	pjeX	pjijX	bejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiᴇX/	/piɪX/	/beiX/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiɛX/	/piX/	/beiX/
Shao Rongfen	/piɛX/	/pjɪX/	/bɛiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiə̆X/	/piX/	/bɛjX/
Li Rong	/pjeX/	/piX/	/beiX/
Wang Li	/pǐeX/	/piX/	/bieiX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pie̯X/	/piX/	/bʱieiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐ	bǐ	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei2	bei2	bai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-pˤeʔ/, /*peʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beːʔ/, /*peʔ/, /*piʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	髀	髀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bejX ›	‹ pjieX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-pˁeʔ/	/*peʔ/
English	femur	femur, haunch
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	髀	髀	髀
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	367	381	396
Phonetic component	卑	卑	卑
Rime group	支	支	脂
Rime subdivision	0	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	陛	𢔌	匕
Old Chinese	/*beːʔ/	/*peʔ/	/*piʔ/

Definitions

髀

1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) thigh

   雞髀／鸡髀 [Cantonese]  ―  gai¹ bei² [Jyutping]  ―  chicken leg

   • 公子拊髀大笑曰：固哉子之云也！ [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Western Jin, 魯褒, 錢神論

     Gōngzǐ fǔ bì dàxiào yuē: gù zāi zǐ zhī yún yě! [Pinyin]

     The son [of the Sikong] slapped his thigh and burst out laughing, saying: How stubborn, what you said was!

   • 1841, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S.W. Williams, page 164:

     燒羊肶要用心 [Cantonese, trad.]
     烧羊肶要用心 [Cantonese, simp.]

     siu¹ joeng⁴ bei² jiu³ jung⁶ sam¹ [Jyutping]

     To roast a leg of mutton much care is needed.

2. (literary) thighbone

Compounds

• 周髀
• 周髀算經 / 周髀算经
• 大腳髀 / 大脚髀
• 大髀
• 拊髀
• 搏髀
• 撫髀 / 抚髀 (fǔbì)
• 腳髀 / 脚髀
• 雞髀 / 鸡髀
• 髀樞 / 髀枢
• 髀肉
• 髀肉復生 / 髀肉复生 (bìròufùshēng)
• 髀骨 (bìgǔ)
• 髀骶

Japanese

Kanji

髀

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ひ (hi)、へい (hei)
• Kun: もも (momo)

References

• “^▲髀”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

髀 • (bi, pye) (hangeul 비, 폐, revised bi, pye, McCune–Reischauer pi, p'ye, Yale pi, phyey)

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