癹

癹 U+7679, 癹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7679 ← 癸 [U+7678] CJK Unified Ideographs 発 → [U+767A]

Translingual

Han character

癹 (Kangxi radical 105, 癶+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓人竹弓水 (NOHNE), four-corner 1240₇, composition ⿱癶殳)

Derived characters

• 𠷑, 𡍰, 𢯸, 𣸍, 𧤔, 𨂩, 𨡩, 𨨻, 𩸿, 𦳠, 發

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 784, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22661
• Dae Jaweon: page 1193, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2760, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7679

Chinese

simp. and trad.		癹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 癹
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (癹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
發	*pad
癹	*pʰaːd, *baːd

Ideogram composed by the radical 癶 (two feet in divergent position) on the top and the component 殳 at the bottom; the bottom part originally represents a hammer in hand, hence a reference to "beating".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bá, pō (ba², po¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚˊ, ㄆㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bá
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bá
    • Wade–Giles: pa²
    • Yale: bá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bar
    • Palladius: ба (ba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pō
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: po
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo¹
    • Yale: pwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: po
    • Palladius: по (po)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bat⁶
    • Yale: baht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: bat

Rime
Character	癹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒲撥切
Baxter	bat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/buɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwat̚/
Li Rong	/buɑt̚/
Wang Li	/buɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	but6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰaːd/, /*baːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	癹	癹
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	165	166
Phonetic component	癹	癹
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	鏺	跋
Old Chinese	/*pʰaːd/	/*baːd/
Notes	注說文讀此

Definitions

癹

1. (archaic) to remove or level out grass with one's feet