# 毗

| 毗 | U+6BD7, &#27607; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BD7 |
| ← 毖 [U+6BD6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 毘 → [U+6BD8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

毗 (Kangxi radical 81, 比+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 田心心 (WPP), four-corner 6101$_0$, composition ⿰田比)
* help, assist
* connect, adjoin

#### Synonyms

* 毘

#### Derived characters

* 𦳈, 𥯡, 𣬖, 𧔆, 𧖈, 𧖎, 𭻲, 𪽥, 𭻽

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 591, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16752
* Dae Jaweon: page 983, character 7
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1417, character 8
* Unihan data for U+6BD7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 梐 | *piː, *biːʔ |
| 狴 | *piː |
| 悂 | *piː, *pʰi |
| 螕 | *piː |
| 鎞 | *piː |
| 蓖 | *piː |
| 篦 | *piː, *bis |
| 批 | *pʰiː |
| 砒 | *pʰiː |
| 鈚 | *pʰiː, *bi |
| 磇 | *pʰiː |
| 媲 | *pʰiːs |
| 笓 | *biː |
| 膍 | *biː, *bi |
| 陛 | *biːʔ |
| 仳 | *pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ |
| 吡 | *pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ |
| 紕 | *be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ |
| 比 | *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ |
| 妣 | *piʔ, *pis |
| 秕 | *piʔ |
| 沘 | *piʔ, *bi |
| 枇 | *piʔ, *bi, *bis |
| 粊 | *pris |
| 庇 | *pis |
| 屁 | *pʰis |
| 琵 | *bi |
| 毗 | *bi |
| 貔 | *bi |
| 豼 | *bi |
| 蚍 | *bi |
| 芘 | *bi, *bis |
| 肶 | *bi |
| 魮 | *bi |
| 阰 | *bi |
| 坒 | *bis, *biɡ |
| 玭 | *bin |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bi) : semantic 囟 + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pí (pi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pei$^4$ / bei$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pî / pí
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: pí
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: pí
*** Wade–Giles: pʻi$^2$
*** Yale: pí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
*** Palladius: пи (pi)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰi³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pei$^4$ / bei$^2$
*** Yale: pèih / béi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pei$^4$ / bei$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: péi$^4$ / béi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰei̯²¹/, /pei̯³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pî
*** Tâi-lô: pî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pii
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi¹³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi²³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /pi²⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pí
*** Tâi-lô: pí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pie
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pi⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: bjij
Rime :
| Character | 毗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 房脂切 |
| Baxter | bjij |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /biɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bi/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bjɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bi/ |
| Li Rong | /bi/ |
| Wang Li | /bi/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | pí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | pei$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ij/
    (Zhengzhang): /*bi/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 毗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | pí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bjij › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b]ij/ |
| English | assist; boastful |
| 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 | 毗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 526 |
| Phonetic component | 比 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𣬈 |
| Old Chinese | /*bi/ |
| Notes | 右囟隸化變田 |

### Definitions

毗
* Used in transcription.

#### Compounds

* 夸毗
* 毗佐
* 毗倚
* 毗婆尸佛
* 毗尼日用
* 毗益
* 毗盧遮那／毗卢遮那
* 毗舍婆佛
* 毗連／毗连 (pílián)
* 毗鄰／毗邻 (pílín)
* 毗陵
* 茶毗 (túpí)
* 荼毗 (túpí)
* 迦毗羅衛／迦毗罗卫 (Jiāpíluówèi)
* 阿毗曇／阿毗昙 (Āpítán)
* 阿毗達磨／阿毗达磨

### References

* “毗”, 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

(Hyōgai kanji)
* help
* assist
* connect
* adjoin

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ひ (hi)、び (bi)
* Kun: たすける (tasukeru)

## Korean
### Hanja

毗 (eum 비 (bi))
* help, assist
* connect, adjoin

## Vietnamese
### Han character

毗: Hán Nôm readings: tì
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#### References

* Nom Foundation