屁

屁 U+5C41, 屁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C41
← 局
[U+5C40]
CJK Unified Ideographs 层 →
[U+5C42]

Translingual

Han character

屁 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸心心 (SPP), four-corner 77211, composition ⿸尸比)

Derived characters

  • 𦼘

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7654
  • Dae Jaweon: page 597, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5C41

Chinese

trad. 屁
simp. # 屁
alternative forms
 
㞑
䊧
𡲩
𥤶
𥥓
㞑
䊧
𡲩
𥤶
𥥓
𥧔

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *pʰis) : semantic 尸 (“body”) + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pja-n/t/s (“fart; shit”). Cognate with Tibetan ཕྱེན (phyen), འཕྱེན ('phyen, “flatulence”), Jingpho hpyet (“to fart”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • pói - colloquial;
  • pé - literary.

Rime
Character 屁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 匹寐切
Baxter phjijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰiH/
Li
Rong
/pʰiH/
Wang
Li
/pʰiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pei3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 屁
Reading # 1/1
No. 524
Phonetic
component
比
Rime
group
脂
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
屁
Old
Chinese
/*pʰis/
Notes 山海經作米旁費

Definitions

屁

  1. (colloquial) flatulence; fart (Classifier: 篤/笃 c)
    放屁  ―  fàngpì  ―  to fart; to bullshit
  2. (colloquial) buttocks; backside
    馬屁/马屁  ―  mǎpì  ―  horse's backside; flattery
    狗屁  ―  gǒupì  ―  dog's backside; nonsense; worthless thing; bullshit
    屁眼  ―  pìyǎn  ―  anus; asshole
  3. (colloquial) to fart; to pass gas
    屁者先知  ―  pìzhěxiānzhī  ―  [jocular] The farter is usually the first to realise (and complain about the fart).
  4. (vulgar) rubbish; worthless; useless; insignificant; trivial
    屁話/屁话  ―  pìhuà  ―  nonsense
    屁事  ―  pìshì  ―  trivial thing
  5. (vulgar, chiefly in the negative) a damn thing; (no)thing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all
    他屁都不是。  ―  Tā pì dōu bùshì.  ―  He is an absolute shit.
    你懂個屁!/你懂个屁!  ―  Nǐ dǒng ge pì!  ―  You know jack shit!
    關我屁事!/关我屁事!  ―  Guān wǒ pì shì!  ―  Like I give a damn!
  6. (vulgar, negates the meaning of the sentence) like hell/like fuck; my ass; your ass; damn all/bugger all/fuck all
    你有屁用!  ―  Nǐ yǒu pì yòng!  ―  You are of fuck all use!
    吃屁飯啊!/吃屁饭啊!  ―  Chī pì fàn a!  ―  Fuck having a meal!/Have fuck-all meal!
    道個屁歉!/道个屁歉!  ―  Dào ge pì qiàn!  ―  Apologize my ass!

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

屁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. flatulence, fart

Readings

  • Go-on: ひ (hi)
  • Kan-on: ひ (hi)
  • Kun: へ (he, 屁)

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
屁
へ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
屁 (he): an illustration of someone letting out a fart at a 河童 (kappa).

Likely from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *pya (“flatus, fart”), itself likely an onomatopoeia. First cited to the Shinsen Jikyō, c. 898-901 CE.[1]

Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *pe (“flatus, fart”). Compare Middle Chinese 屁 (MC phjijH).

Pronunciation

Noun

屁(へ) • (he) 

  1. (mildly vulgar) flatulence, fart
    Synonym: おなら (onara)

Derived terms

References

  1. “屁”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

屁 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屁: Hán Nôm readings: thí

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