# 貔

| 貔 | U+8C94, &#35988; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C94 |
| ← 貓 [U+8C93] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 貕 → [U+8C95] |

## Translingual
### Han character

貔 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹田心 (BHHWP), four-corner 2621$_1$, composition ⿰豸𣬉)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1202, character 38
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36606
* Dae Jaweon: page 1664, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3916, character 8
* Unihan data for U+8C94

## 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 豸 + phonetic 𣬉 (pí).

### Etymology

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan དབྱི (dbyi, “lynx”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Schuessler also sees possible cognacy with pi ~ byi in Tibetan པི་ཤི (pi shi) and བྱི་ལ (byi la), though pi ~ byi might be derived from Indic (cf. Hindi बिल्ला (billā) < Sanskrit बिडाल (biḍāla); see the Sanskrit word for ultimate non-Indic etymology); even so, pi ~ byi is still possibly native Tibetan if པི་ཤི (pi shi)'s shi was from earlier *zhi and cognate with 狸 (OC *rɯ), see there for more (ibid.).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pí (pi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pei$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pî
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$bi
* 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$^4$
*** Yale: pèih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pei$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: péi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰei̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pî
*** Tâi-lô: pî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pii
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pi²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pi²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pi²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi²³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$bi
*** MiniDict: bi$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$bi
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bi²³/
* Middle Chinese: bjij
Rime :
| Character | 貔 |
| 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/ |
| Bernhard 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 | 貔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | pí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bjij › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b]ij/ |
| English | kind of wild cat |
| 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 | 貔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 527 |
| Phonetic component | 比 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𣬈 |
| Old Chinese | /*bi/ |

### Definitions

貔
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) panther-like feline
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Shí yōng shí hè, shí mǔ shí jí, xiàn qí pí pí, chì bào huáng pí. [Pinyin]
    Making strong his walls, and deep his moats, Laying out his fields, regulating his revenues, Presenting his skins of the panthers, With those of the red leopards and the yellow brown bears.
    From: The Book of Documents, circa 7th – 4th centuries BCE
    Xù zāi fūzǐ! Shàng huánhuán rú hǔ, rú pí, rú xióng, rú pí! [Pinyin]
    Exert yourselves, officers — you shall be martial and imposing! Be like tigers, like panthers, like black bears, like brown bears!

### Compounds

* 虎貔
* 貔子 (pízi)
* 貔子窩港 / 貔子窝港
* 貔虎
* 貔貅 (píxiū)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* brave heraldic beast

#### Readings

* Go-on: び (bi)
* Kan-on: ひ (hi)

#### Compounds

* 貔(ヒ)貅(キュウ) (Hikyū, “Pixiu”)

## Korean
### Hanja

貔 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)
* fox, leopard, panther

## Vietnamese
### Han character

貔: Hán Nôm readings: tì
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