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 Dictionary: 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

	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

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, 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”), (p. 164). Schuessler (2007) also considers that this may be a possible allofam or re-etymologization of 婢 (“female slave”), (p.158).

Pronunciation

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
Baxter	pejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/peiH/
Pan Wuyun	/peiH/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛjH/
Li Rong	/peiH/
Wang Li	/pieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/pieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai3

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嬖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pejH ›
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/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei³ / bai³

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

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• Middle Chinese: pejH

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤek-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*peːɡs/

Definitions

嬖

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

Compounds

• 便嬖
• 內嬖／内嬖
• 嬖人 (bìrén)
• 嬖佞
• 嬖倖／嬖幸
• 嬖女
• 嬖妾
• 嬖臣 (bìchén)
• 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

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: はい (hai)
• Kan-on: へい (hei)
• Kun: おきにいり (oki ni iri, 嬖り)^[1]

References

1. “嬖”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

嬖 (eum 폐 (pye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

嬖: Hán Nôm readings: bế

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