# 秕

| 秕 | U+79D5, &#31189; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79D5 |
| ← 秔 [U+79D4] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 秖 → [U+79D6] |

## Translingual
### Han character

秕 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木心心 (HDPP), four-corner 2191$_0$, composition ⿰禾比)

#### Related characters

* 粃 (Variant form of 秕 in Chinese)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 850, character 28
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24958
* Dae Jaweon: page 1274, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2593, character 8
* Unihan data for U+79D5

## 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 *piʔ) : semantic 禾 + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bǐ (bi$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bei$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pí
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bǐ
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bǐ
*** Wade–Giles: pi$^3$
*** Yale: bǐ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bii
*** Palladius: би (bi)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bei$^2$
*** Yale: béi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bei$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: béi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /pei̯³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pí
*** Tâi-lô: pí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pie
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pi⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: pjijX
Rime :
| Character | 秕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 卑履切 |
| Baxter | pjijX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /piɪ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pi$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pjɪ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pi$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /pi$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /pi$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /pi$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bǐ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bei$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pijʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*piʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 秕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bǐ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pjij$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*pijʔ/ |
| English | chaff; petty |
| 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 | 秕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 513 |
| Phonetic component | 比 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 匕 |
| Old Chinese | /*piʔ/ |

### Definitions

秕
* empty or unplump grain
* (literary) bad; evil

#### Compounds

* 秕子 (bǐzi)
* 秕政 (bǐzhèng)
* 秕殼草／秕壳草
* 秕滓
* 秕稗
* 秕糠 (bǐkāng)
* 秕謬／秕谬
* 糠秕 (kāngbǐ)

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03088
* “秕”, 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)
* empty grain husk; chaff

#### Readings

* Go-on: ひ (hi)
* Kan-on: ひ (hi)
* Kun: しいな (shīna)

### Noun

* Kanji in this term
* 秕
* しいな Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
秕(しいな) • (shīna)
* Alternative form of 粃.

## Korean
### Hanja

秕 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

秕: Hán Nôm readings: bỉ
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#### References

* Nom Foundation