蔽

See also: 芘

蔽 U+853D, 蔽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-853D ← 蔼 [U+853C] CJK Unified Ideographs 蔾 → [U+853E]

Translingual

Han character

蔽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿火月大 (TFBK), four-corner 4424₈, composition ⿱艹敝(GHTJK))

Derived characters

• 虌, 𮜣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1056, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31888
• Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3277, character 19
• Unihan data for U+853D

Chinese

trad.		蔽
simp. #		蔽
2nd round simp.		芘

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) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pè

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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: bai³
    • Yale: bai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pè
    • Tâi-lô: pè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pe²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pe⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjiejH

Rime
Character	蔽
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	/piᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piajH/
Li Rong	/piɛiH/
Wang Li	/pĭɛiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pe[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*peds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pjiejH ›
Old Chinese	/*pe[t]-s/
English	cover (v.)
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	蔽
Reading #	1/1
No.	627
Phonetic component	敝
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	蔽
Old Chinese	/*peds/

Definitions

蔽

1. to cover; to hide; to conceal
2. to summarize; to sum up

Compounds

• 一言以蔽之 (yīyán yǐ bì zhī)
• 一言蔽之 (yīyánbìzhī)
• 古木蔽天
• 壅蔽 (yōngbì)
• 屏蔽 (píngbì)
• 屏蔽罐
• 干雲蔽日
• 幽蔽
• 建蔽率
• 才蔽識淺 / 才蔽识浅
• 扞蔽
• 掩蔽 (yǎnbì)
• 掩蔽部 (yǎnbìbù)
• 旌旗蔽天
• 旌旗蔽日 (jīngqíbìrì)
• 旌旗蔽空
• 林蔭蔽天 / 林荫蔽天
• 泥水自蔽
• 浮雲蔽日 / 浮云蔽日
• 濃蔭蔽空 / 浓荫蔽空
• 烏雲蔽日 / 乌云蔽日
• 矇蔽 / 蒙蔽 (méngbì)
• 蒙蔽 (méngbì)
• 蔭蔽 / 荫蔽
• 蔽匿
• 蔽塞 (bìsè)
• 蔽天 (bìtiān)
• 蔽屣 (bìxǐ)
• 蔽席
• 蔽形術 / 蔽形术
• 蔽日 (bìrì)
• 蔽月羞花
• 蔽獄 / 蔽狱
• 蔽空
• 蔽聰塞明 / 蔽聪塞明
• 蔽膝 (bìxī)
• 蔽芾 (bìfèi)
• 蔽賢 / 蔽贤 (bìxián)
• 蔽賢寵頑 / 蔽贤宠顽
• 蔽身
• 蔽身處 / 蔽身处
• 蔽遮
• 蔽野
• 蔽面
• 蔽體 / 蔽体
• 衣不蔽體 / 衣不蔽体
• 覆蔽
• 遮天蔽日 (zhētiānbìrì)
• 遮蔽 (zhēbì)
• 錮蔽 / 锢蔽
• 防蔽耳目
• 障蔽 (zhàngbì)
• 隱天蔽日 / 隐天蔽日
• 隱蔽 / 隐蔽 (yǐnbì)
• 隱蔽性 / 隐蔽性

 

Japanese

Kanji

蔽

(Jōyō kanji)

1. cover, hide, conceal

Readings

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• Kun: おおう (ōu, 蔽う)

Compounds

Compounds

• 隠蔽(いんぺい) (inpei): concealment
• 掩蔽(えんぺい) (enpei): concealment, masking, cloaking
• 遮蔽(しゃへい) (shahei): shield (from sunlight, or human eyes)

Korean

Hanja

蔽 • (pye, byeol, bul) (hangeul 폐, 별, 불, revised pye, byeol, bul, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, pul, Yale phyey, pyel, pul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔽: Hán Việt readings: tế, phất
蔽: Nôm readings: tế

1. chữ Hán form of tế (“protect, hide”).