# 嬖

| 嬖 | U+5B16, &#23318; 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 7040$_4$, 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
### 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 |
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

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bì (bi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pei$^3$ / bai$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bì
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bì
*** Wade–Giles: pi$^4$
*** Yale: bì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
*** Palladius: би (bi)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pei$^3$ / bai$^3$
*** Yale: pei / bai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pei$^3$ / bai$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: péi$^3$ / bei$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰei̯³³/, /pɐi̯³³/
* Middle Chinese: pejH
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 | /pei$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pei$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pɛi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pɛj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /pei$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /piei$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /piei$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bai$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤek-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*peːɡs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 嬖 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pej$^H$ › |
| 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/ |

### Definitions

嬖
* (literary) to dote on; to show favor to (e.g. a woman)
* (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

(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)

### References

* ↑ “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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