詖

See also: 诐

詖 U+8A56, 詖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A56 ← 評 [U+8A55] CJK Unified Ideographs 詗 → [U+8A57]

Translingual

Han character

詖 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜口木竹水 (YRDHE), four-corner 0464₇, composition ⿰訁皮)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1155, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35384
• Dae Jaweon: page 1621, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3960, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8A56

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 詖
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

	Old Chinese
陂	*pral, *prals
詖	*pral, *prals
彼	*pralʔ
柀	*pralʔ
佊	*pralʔ, *prals
貱	*prals
跛	*prals, *paːlʔ
披	*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹	*pʰral
帔	*pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍	*pʰral
耚	*pʰral
狓	*pʰral
翍	*pʰral
旇	*pʰral, *brals
秛	*pʰral, *pʰrals
紴	*pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮	*bral
疲	*bral
被	*bralʔ, *brals
髲	*brals
鞁	*brals
骳	*mbralʔ
波	*paːl
碆	*paːl, *baːl
菠	*paːl
簸	*paːlʔ, *paːls
駊	*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗	*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡	*pʰaːl
玻	*pʰaːl
破	*pʰaːls
婆	*baːl
蔢	*baːl

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pral, *prals): phonetic 皮 (OC *bral) + semantic 言.

Etymology 1

trad.		詖
simp.		诐

Cognate to Tibetan ཕྲ་མ (phra ma, “slander”) (Hill, 2019), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *praj (“slander”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	詖	詖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	支 (13)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	彼爲切	彼義切
Baxter	pje	pjeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiᴇ/	/pˠiᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiɛ/	/pᵚiɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/piɛ/	/piɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiə̆/	/pjiə̆H/
Li Rong	/pje/	/pjeH/
Wang Li	/pǐe/	/pǐeH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pie̯/	/pie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bī	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei1	bei3

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	詖	詖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9689	9694
Phonetic component	皮	皮
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	陂	賁
Old Chinese	/*pral/	/*prals/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei³ / bei¹ / pei⁴

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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: bei³ / bei¹ / pei⁴
    • Yale: bei / bēi / pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei³ / bei¹ / pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi³ / béi¹ / péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³³/, /pei̯⁵⁵/, /pʰei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pje, pjeH

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pral/, /*prals/

Definitions

詖

1. (literary) biased
2. (literary) to flatter

Compounds

• 曲學詖行 / 曲学诐行
• 詖淫 / 诐淫
• 詖行 / 诐行
• 詖辭 / 诐辞
• 調詖 / 调诐
• 險詖 / 险诐

Etymology 2

trad.		詖
simp.		诐
alternative forms		𠱀

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): puêh⁸

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• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: puêh⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phue̍h
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰueʔ⁴/

Definitions

詖 (Teochew)

1. to talk; to chat; to converse

Compounds

• 詖古 / 诐古 (puêh⁸ gou²) (Teochew)
• 詖話 / 诐话 (puêh⁸ uê⁷) (Teochew)

References

• “詖”, 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–
• 林伦伦 [Lín Lúnlún], editor (1997), 新编潮州音字典 (Xīn biān Cháozhōu yīn zìdiǎn), 汕头 (Shàntóu) [Shantou]: 汕头大学出版社, page 196

Japanese

Kanji

詖

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. argue
2. biased
3. one-sided

Readings

From Middle Chinese 詖 (MC pje|pjeH); compare Mandarin 詖 / 诐 (bì):

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)

Unknown: (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• On (unclassified): は (ha)

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: かたよる (katayoru, 詖る)

Compounds

• 詖(ひ)行(こう) (hikō)
• 詖(ひ)辞(じ) (hiji)
• 詖(ひ)賊(ぞく) (hizoku)
• 詭(き)詖(ひ) (kihi)

Korean

Hanja

詖 • (pi) (hangeul 피, revised pi, McCune–Reischauer p'i, Yale phi)

1. be biased
2. crafty
3. to debate
4. to flatter