# 譬

| 譬 | U+8B6C, &#35692; 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 7060$_1$, 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
### 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 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pì (pi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pei$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phì
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: pì
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: pì
*** Wade–Giles: pʻi$^4$
*** Yale: pì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pih
*** Palladius: пи (pi)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pei$^3$
*** Yale: pei
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pei$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: péi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /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 | pei$^3$ |
* 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

(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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