嬖

嬖	U+5B16, 嬖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B16

← 嬕
[U+5B15]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嬗 →
[U+5B17]

Translingual

Han character

嬖 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸十女 (SJV), four-corner 7040₄, composition ⿱辟女)

Derived characters

𭒯

References

KangXi: page 272, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6770
Dae Jaweon: page 540, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1085, character 10
Unihan data for U+5B16

Chinese

trad.		嬖
simp. ^#		嬖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	beːɡs, preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	preːɡ, pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	breːɡ, peːɡ
辟	peɡ, pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	pʰeɡ, pʰeːɡ
癖	pʰeɡ, pʰeːɡ
廦	pʰeɡ, peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peːɡs) : phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) + semantic 女 (“woman”).

Etymology

According to Schuessler (2007), from Kam-Tai; compare Proto-Kam-Sui *ɓjaːk⁷ (“woman, girl”) & Proto-Tai *ɓɯːkᴰ (“girl”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pei³, bai³

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: pei³, bai³
  - Yale: pei, bai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pei³, bai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: péi³, bei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯³³/, /pɐi̯³³/

Middle Chinese: /pei^H/

Rime
Character	嬖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	博計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pei^H/
Pan Wuyun	/pei^H/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛj^H/
Li Rong	/pei^H/
Wang Li	/piei^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/piei^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤek-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*peːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嬖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁek-s/
English	favorite (n.)
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	嬖
Reading #	1/1
No.	662
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	閉
Old Chinese	/*peːɡs/

Definitions

嬖

(literary) to dote on; to show favor to (e.g. a woman)
(literary) favored; favored person

Compounds

便嬖
嬖人 (bìrén)
嬖佞

嬖女
嬖妾
嬖臣 (bìchén)

內嬖／内嬖
嬖倖／嬖幸
寵嬖／宠嬖

References

“嬖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

嬖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: はい (hai)
Kan-on: へい (hei)
Kun: きにいり (kinīri)

Korean

Hanja

嬖 (eum 폐 (pye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

嬖: Hán Nôm readings: bế

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