See also:
U+9F3B, 鼻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F3B

[U+9F3A]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9F3C]
U+2FD0, ⿐
KANGXI RADICAL NOSE

[U+2FCF]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2FD1]
鼻 U+2FA1C, 鼻
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA1C
鼖
[U+2FA1B]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𪘀
[U+2FA1D]

Translingual

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Stroke order
 
Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Alternative forms

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The form of this character differs slightly between China and Japan:

in China: ,
in Japan:

That is, in China the bottom is (strokes T-junction), while in Japan the bottom is (strokes cross).

Due to Han unification, they share the same codepoint.

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 209, +0, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹山田一中 (HUWML), four-corner 26446, composition or 𢌿)

  1. Kangxi radical #209, .

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1530, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48498
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2066, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4779, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9F3B

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
2nd round simp. 𢍂

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *blids) : semantic (nose) + phonetic (OC *pids).

(OC *ɦljids) originally meant “nose” but came to be used to mean “self”, so the sense of “nose” has been replaced by (OC *blids). Some scholars interpret (OC *blids) as a combination of a nose ( (OC *ɦljids)) and two lungs ( (OC *pids)), however 畀 on oracle bones represents an arrow.

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bi (nose); compare Nuosu (hnap bbit, nose; snot).

Alternatively, it may be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-brit (sneeze; nose; swallow), whence Tibetan སྦྲིད (sbrid, sneeze), but there is no trace of r in Chinese (Schuessler, 2007).

In some modern lects, including Mandarin, Gan, Jin, Wu, and Xiang, and even in the literary layer of some Min dialects, the word reflects a form with final *-t. For example, in standard Mandarin, the word is pronounced (implying an old entering tone) instead of (the expected reflex from the departing tone in Middle Chinese). This is due to a phonological phenomenon in the northwest, either an early loss of *-s in the *-ts cluster before regular final cluster simplification occurred (Baxter, 1992), or a dialectal change from *-s to *-t (Pulleybank, 1998).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • bei5 - “nose”;
  • bei5* - “nasal mucus”.
Note:
  • pī - vernacular (noun);
  • bī - vernacular (“to smell”).
Note:
  • pé - vernacular (noun);
  • bê - vernacular (“to smell”);
  • bĭk - literary.
Note:
  • phīⁿ/phī/phǐ - vernacular;
  • pi̍t - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pi³⁵/
Harbin /pi²⁴/
Tianjin /pi⁴⁵/
Jinan /pi⁴²/
Qingdao /pi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pi⁴²/
Xi'an /pi²⁴/
Xining /pji²⁴/
Yinchuan /pi¹³/
Lanzhou /pi⁵³/
Ürümqi /pi⁵¹/
Wuhan /pi²¹³/
Chengdu /pi³¹/
Guiyang /pi²¹/
Kunming /pi³¹/
Nanjing /piʔ⁵/
Hefei /piəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /piəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /piʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /piəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /biɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /biəʔ³/
Hangzhou /biəʔ²/
/bɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /bi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /pʰi²²/
Tunxi /pʰi⁵/
Xiang Changsha /pi²⁴/
Xiangtan /pʰi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /pʰiʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /pʰi⁵³/
Taoyuan /pʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pei²²/
Nanning /pi²²/
Hong Kong /pei²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pi²²/
/pʰi²²/ ~仔
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pʰɛi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pʰi⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /pĩ³¹/
Haikou (Hainanese) /fi²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter bjijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/biɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/biH/
Shao
Rongfen
/bjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/biH/
Li
Rong
/biH/
Wang
Li
/biH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bei6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjijH › ‹ bjijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-bi[t]-s/ /*Cə-bi[t]-s/
English nose smell (v.t.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 612
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*blids/

Definitions

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  1. (anatomy) nose (Classifier: c;  mn)
  2. nose-like object, protruding part
    1. handle
    2. pinhole
    3. (geography) cape
  3. initial; founding; beginning; original
      ―    ―  forefather; initiator
  4. (dialectal) nasal mucus; snot
  5. (archaic or Hakka, Min) to smell
  6. (Northern Min, including Songxi Northern Min, Shibei) to kiss

Synonyms

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Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

鼻󠄁
+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
 
鼻󠄃
+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. nose

Readings

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  • Go-on: (bi, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: (hi)
  • Kun: はな (hana, , Jōyō)はじめ (hajime, 鼻め)

Compounds

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
はな
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

From Proto-Japonic *pana. The sense as a pronoun is from pointing to one's nose to refer to oneself.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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(はな) (hana

  1. nose
  2. (elephant or elephant seal) trunk

Pronoun

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(はな) (hana

  1. first-person personal male pronoun; I, me

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC bjijH).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 삥〮 (Yale: ppí)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[2] 고〮 (Yale: kwó) 비〯 (Yale: )

Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [pi(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (ko bi))

  1. hanja form? of (nose; nasal; rhino-)
    호흡(呼吸)nasal respiration
    음(音)a nasal sound
    모음(母音)nasal vowel
    강(副腔)sinus
    염(炎)rhinitis
    인후과(耳咽喉科)otorhinolaryngology

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [3]

Kunigami

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Kanji

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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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(ぱなー) (phanā

  1. nose

Miyako

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Kanji

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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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(ぱな) (pana

  1. nose

Okinawan

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Kanji

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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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(はな) (hana

  1. (anatomy) nose

References

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  • ハナ” in Okinawa Center of Language Study, Shuri-Naha Dialect Dictionary (archived; reopens 2024).

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: tị

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Yaeyama

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Kanji

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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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(ぱな) (pana

  1. nose

Yonaguni

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Kanji

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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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