譬

譬	U+8B6C, 譬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B6C

← 譫
[U+8B6B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

譭 →
[U+8B6D]

Translingual

Han character

譬 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 尸十卜一口 (SJYMR), four-corner 7060₁, composition ⿱辟言)

metaphor, simile, example

Derived characters

𭍅

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1183, character 16

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36019

Dae Jaweon: page 1646, character 10

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4026, character 8

Unihan data for U+8B6C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		譬

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pì (pi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pei³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phì

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pì
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pì
  - Wade–Giles: pʻi⁴
  - Yale: pì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pih
  - Palladius: пи (pi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: pei³
  - Yale: pei
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pei³
  - Guangdong Romanization: péi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phì
  - Tâi-lô: phì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phix
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰi¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰi²¹/

Middle Chinese: phjieH

Rime
Character	譬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	匹賜切
Baxter	phjieH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰjɛ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰiə̆^H/
Li Rong	/pʰie^H/
Wang Li	/pʰǐe^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰie̯^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pei³

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

(Zhengzhang): /*pʰeɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	譬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pì
Middle Chinese	‹ phjie^H ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰek-s/
English	example
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	譬
Reading #	1/1
No.	666
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	譬
Old Chinese	/*pʰeɡs/

Definitions

譬

to make an analogy
analogy; metaphor
(literary) to inform; to explain
(literary) to understand

Compounds

取譬
妙喻取譬
寬譬／宽譬
引譬
方桃譬李
曉譬／晓譬
罕譬而喻
能近取譬
譎譬／谲譬
譬似閑／譬似闲
譬喻 (pìyù)
譬如 (pìrú)
譬如閒／譬如闲
譬方
譬語／譬语 (pìyǔ)
譬諸／譬诸

References

“譬”, 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

譬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

illustrate

Readings

Go-on: ひ (hi)

Kan-on: ひ (hi)

Kun: たとえる (tatoeru, 譬える); たとえ (tatoe, 譬え)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

譬: Hán Nôm readings: thí, thía, tỉ, ví

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