Change viewing parameters
Select another database

Chinese characters :

Search within this database
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: pí
Preclassic Old Chinese: bhaj
Classic Old Chinese: bhaj
Western Han Chinese: bhaj
Eastern Han Chinese: bhe
Early Postclassic Chinese: bhe
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bhe
Late Postclassic Chinese: bhe
Middle Chinese: be
English meaning : hide, fur, animal skin
Russian meaning[s]: 1) кожа; мех; кожаный; меховой; кожевенный; шорный; 2) кора; кожура; наружная сторона, поверхность; оболочка, обложка; упаковка, тара; 3) тонкие пластинки, листки; 4) упрямый, косный; 5) твердый, крепкий; черствый; зачерстветь; 6) сокр. резина; резиновый; 7) Пи (фамилия)
Comments: Cf. perhaps also Viet. va`y 'fish scale, thin skin'. For *bh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen phe2, Chaozhou phue2, Fuzhou phui2, Jianou phüɛ2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 107
Four-angle index: 6077
Karlgren code: 0025 a-c
Vietnamese reading: bì
Jianchuan Bai: pe7
Dali Bai: pe7
Shijing occurrences: 18.1_, 52.1_
bigchina-reading,bigchina-ochn,bigchina-cchn,bigchina-wchn,bigchina-echn,bigchina-epchn,bigchina-mpchn,bigchina-lpchn,bigchina-mchn,bigchina-meaning,bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-comment,bigchina-stibet,bigchina-doc,bigchina-radical,bigchina-oshval,bigchina-karlgren,bigchina-viet,bigchina-jianchuan,bigchina-dali,bigchina-shijing,

Search within this database


Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Search within this database
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phal
Meaning: skin
Chinese: *bhaj skin.
Burmese: pajʔ to flay (skin), peel.
Lushai: pil the outer covering or covering.
Comments: Cf. Jeh pal.T 'skin'.
stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-burm,stibet-lush,stibet-comments,

Search within this database


Chinese Dialects :

Search within this database
Number: 202
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 止開三平支並
ZIHUI: 4122 0551
Beijing: phi 12
Jinan: phi 12
Xi'an: phi 12
Taiyuan: phi 1
Hankou: phi 12
Chengdu: phi 12
Yangzhou: phi 12
Suzhou: bi 12
Wenzhou: bei 12
Changsha: pi 12
Shuangfeng: bi 12
Nanchang: phi 12
Meixian: phi 12
Guangzhou: phei 12
Xiamen: phi 12 (lit.); phe 12
Chaozhou: phue 12
Fuzhou: phi 12 (lit.); phuei 12
Shanghai: pi 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: phei 12
doc-charref,doc-character,doc-mcinfo,doc-zihui,doc-beijing,doc-jinan,doc-xian,doc-taiyuan,doc-hankou,doc-chengdu,doc-yangzhou,doc-suzhou,doc-wenzhou,doc-changsha,doc-shuangfeng,doc-nanchang,doc-meixian,doc-guangzhou,doc-xiamen,doc-chaozhou,doc-fuzhou,doc-shanghai,doc-zhongyuan,

Search within this database

Select another database
Change viewing parameters
Total pages generatedPages generated by this script
22313931872391
Help
StarLing database serverPowered byCGI scripts
Copyright 1998-2003 by S. StarostinCopyright 1998-2003 by G. Bronnikov
Copyright 2005-2014 by Phil Krylov