# 碑

| 碑 | U+7891, &#30865; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7891 |
| ← 碐 [U+7890] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 碒 → [U+7892] |
| 碑 | U+FA4B, &#64075; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA4B |
| ← 琢 [U+FA4A] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 社 → [U+FA4C] |

## Translingual

| Japanese | 碑 |
| Simplified | 碑 |
| Traditional | 碑 |

### Alternative forms

Note that in Japanese shinjitai, the top left handed stroke ㇓ in 卑 is written as two separate strokes.

### Han character

碑 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+8 in Chinese, 石+9 in Japanese, 13 strokes in Chinese, 14 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 一口竹田十 (MRHWJ), four-corner 1664$_0$, composition ⿰石卑)

#### Derived characters

* 𥵔

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 832, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24364
* Dae Jaweon: page 1248, character 27
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2438, character 6
* Unihan data for U+7891
* Unihan data for U+FA4B

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 捭 | *preːʔ |
| 牌 | *breː, *breː |
| 郫 | *breː, *bre, *be |
| 蠯 | *breː, *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 猈 | *breːʔ, *breː |
| 稗 | *breːs |
| 粺 | *breːs |
| 𥱼 | *breː |
| 豍 | *peː |
| 箄 | *peː, *pe, *peʔ |
| 錍 | *pʰeː, *pe |
| 睥 | *pʰeːs |
| 渒 | *pʰeːs, *pe |
| 鼙 | *beː |
| 鞞 | *beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ |
| 椑 | *beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ |
| 崥 | *beː, *peʔ |
| 髀 | *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ |
| 卑 | *pe |
| 鵯 | *pe, *pʰiɡ |
| 裨 | *pe, *be |
| 痺 | *pe |
| 碑 | *pre |
| 婢 | *peʔ, *beʔ |
| 諀 | *pʰeʔ |
| 脾 | *be |
| 埤 | *be |
| 陴 | *be |
| 蜱 | *be, *mbew |
| 焷 | *be |
| 螷 | *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 庳 | *beʔ |
| 琕 | *biːŋ |
| 萆 | *beɡ, *slɯʔ |
| 綼 | *biɡ, *peːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pre): semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 卑 (OC *pe).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): bēi (bei$^1$)
       (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟ
    (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): bei$^1$
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bei$^1$
* Gan (Wiktionary): bi$^1$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): pî
    (Hailu, HRS): bi$^ˋ$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): bi$^1$
* Jin (Wiktionary): bei$^1$
* Northern Min (KCR): bí
* Eastern Min (BUC): bĭ
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bi$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bi$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$pe
* Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): bei$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bēi
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bei
*** Wade–Giles: pei$^1$
*** Yale: bēi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
*** Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /peɪ̯⁵⁵/
** (Chengdu)
*** Sichuanese Pinyin: bei$^1$
*** Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: bei
*** Sinological IPA : /pei⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bei$^1$
*** Yale: bēi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bei$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: béi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pei̯⁵⁵/
* Gan
** (Nanchang)
*** Wiktionary: bi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁴²/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pî
*** Hakka Romanization System: bi$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: bi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /pi²⁴/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: bi$^ˋ$
*** Sinological IPA: /pi⁵³/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: bi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /pi⁴⁴/
* Jin
** (Taiyuan)
*** Wiktionary: bei$^1$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /pei¹¹/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bí
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: bĭ
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: bi$^1$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bi
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pi
*** Tâi-lô: pi
*** Phofsit Daibuun: py
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /pi³³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: bi$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pi
*** Sinological IPA : /pi³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$pe
*** MiniDict: pe$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$pe
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pe⁵³/
* Xiang
** (Changsha)
*** Wiktionary: bei$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pe̞i̯³³/
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit碑 |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /pei⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /pei²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /pei²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /pe²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /pei²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /pi²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /pji⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /pei⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /pi³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /pei⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /pei⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /pəi³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /pe²¹/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /pei¹¹/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /pei¹³/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /pei³¹/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /pe⁵³/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /pe̞⁵⁵/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /pei³³/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /pai³³/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /pe³¹/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | /pe¹¹/ |
| Xiang | Changsha | /pei³³/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /pəi³³/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | /pi⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /pi⁴⁴/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | /pi²⁴/ |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /pei⁵³/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /pɐi⁵⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /pi⁵⁵/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /pi⁴⁴/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /pi⁵⁴/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /pi³³/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /ʔbɔi²³/ |
* Middle Chinese: pje
Rime :
| Character | 碑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (13) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 彼爲切 |
| Baxter | pje |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pˠiᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pᵚiɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /piɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pjiə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /pje/ |
| Wang Li | /pǐe/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bei$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pre/
    (Zhengzhang): /*pre/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 碑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bēi |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pje › |
| Old Chinese | /*pre/ |
| English | stele; upright pole of stone or wood |
| 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 | 碑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 377 |
| Phonetic component | 卑 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 陂 |
| Old Chinese | /*pre/ |

### Definitions

碑
* stele (Classifier: 塊／块)
    墓碑 ― mùbēi ― tombstone
    界碑 ― jièbēi ― boundary stone
    紀念碑／纪念碑 ― jìniànbēi ― monument

### Compounds

* 下馬碑 / 下马碑 (xiàmǎbēi)
* 勒碑
* 化度寺碑
* 北碑
* 南碑
* 口碑 (kǒubēi)
* 口碑載道 / 口碑载道
* 史晨碑
* 四絕碑 / 四绝碑
* 墓碑 (mùbēi)
* 大碑落
* 孔宙碑
* 岣嶁碑 / 岣嵝碑
* 峴山碑 / 岘山碑
* 張猛龍碑 / 张猛龙碑
* 張遷碑 / 张迁碑
* 御碑亭
* 德政碑
* 打碑
* 拓碑
* 曹全碑
* 曹娥碑
* 有口皆碑 (yǒukǒujiēbēi)
* 李思訓碑 / 李思训碑
* 李陵碑
* 樹碑立傳 / 树碑立传
* 沒字碑 / 没字碑
* 漢孔宙碑 / 汉孔宙碑
* 漢禮器碑 / 汉礼器碑
* 無碑記 / 无碑记
* 爨寶子碑 / 爨宝子碑
* 爨龍顏碑 / 爨龙颜碑
* 玄祕塔碑 / 玄秘塔碑
* 界碑 (jièbēi)
* 石碑 (shíbēi)
* 碑亭 (bēitíng)
* 碑壇 / 碑坛
* 碑學 / 碑学
* 碑嶺 / 碑岭
* 碑帖 (bēitiè)
* 碑文 (bēiwén)
* 碑本
* 碑林 (bēilín)
* 碑版
* 碑珓
* 碑石 (bēishí)
* 碑碣 (bēijié)
* 碑穿
* 碑記 / 碑记 (bēijì)
* 碑誌 / 碑志 (bēizhì)
* 碑趺
* 碑銘 / 碑铭 (bēimíng)
* 碑陰 / 碑阴 (bēiyīn)
* 碑面
* 碑額 / 碑额 (bēi'é)
* 神道碑
* 禮器碑 / 礼器碑
* 立碑
* 紀念碑 / 纪念碑 (jìniànbēi)
* 臥碑 / 卧碑
* 華山碑 / 华山碑
* 豐碑 / 丰碑 (fēngbēi)
* 里程碑 (lǐchéngbēi)
* 顏勤禮碑 / 颜勤礼碑
* 顏家廟碑 / 颜家庙碑
* 魏碑 (wèibēi)
* 麓山寺碑
* 黨籍碑 / 党籍碑
* 龍藏寺碑 / 龙藏寺碑

### References

* “碑”, 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–
* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02849
* 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “碑”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 157.

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 碑 |
| Kyūjitai | 碑 &#xFA4B; or 碑+&#xFE00; |
| Kyūjitai | 碑󠄀 碑+&#xE0100; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 碑󠄃 碑+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 碑)
* gravestone

#### Readings

* Go-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
* Kun: いしぶみ (ishibumi, 碑)、えりいし (eriishi, 碑)、たていし (tateishi, 碑)

#### Compounds

* 慰霊碑(いれいひ) (ireihi)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 碑
* いしぶみ Grade: S
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 碑 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 碑 – see the following entry. :
| 【いしぶみ】 | [noun] stone engraved with memorial text |
(This term, 碑, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 碑
* ひ Grade: S
* on'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 碑 (kyūjitai)

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ひ [hì] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [çi]

#### Noun

碑(ひ) • (hi)
* stone engraved with memorial text

##### Synonyms

* 石碑(せきひ) (sekihi)
* 碑(いしぶみ) (ishibumi)

### References

* ↑ “碑”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

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

碑: Hán Nôm readings: bi
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