Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 比

Modern (Beijing) reading: bǐ

Preclassic Old Chinese: pijʔ

Classic Old Chinese: píj

Western Han Chinese: pjǝ́j

Eastern Han Chinese: pjǝ́j

Early Postclassic Chinese: pjíj

Middle Postclassic Chinese: pjíj

Late Postclassic Chinese: pjí

Middle Chinese: pjí

English meaning : to compare

Russian meaning[s]: 1) сравнивать; в сравнении с; уподобиться; сравнительный; относительный; 2) служебный глагол сравнения; 3) жестом (примером) изобразить, показать (размер, форму чего-л.); аллегория; 4) мат. отношение; пропорциональность; 5) сокр. Бельгия; [bì] 1) близость; близкий; 2) прилегать; ближайший; последний; 3) до, вплоть до, вм. 到 в обстоятельствах времени; 4) подряд, несколько в ряд; рядом

Comments: Also read: bì, MC pjì (FQ 必至), OC *pijʔ-s 'to put together, match, assemble; to join'. Another reading is bǐ, MC pí, OC *prijʔ 'to be cooperative' (Sch.: perhaps 'be associating'); the MC reading, however, is not quite reliable - may be a misspelling instead of *pjí, OC *pijʔ. For the meaning 'to join' Sch. also gives a reading MC bjì (from Jingdian shiwen), which is somewhat dubious.

The regular Sino-Viet. reading is ti` / ty`; thus bì is either an earlier or a later loanword.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 81

Four-angle index: 6922

Karlgren code: 0566 g-h

Vietnamese reading: bì

Shijing occurrences: 35.5

Number: 106

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 比

MC description : 止開三上旨幫

ZIHUI: 3024 0532

Beijing: pi 2

Jinan: pi 2

Xi'an: pi 2

Taiyuan: pi 2

Hankou: pi 2

Chengdu: pi 2

Yangzhou: pi 2

Suzhou: pi 2

Wenzhou: pei 21

Changsha: pi 2

Shuangfeng: pi 2

Nanchang: pi 2

Meixian: pi 2

Guangzhou: pei 21

Xiamen: pi 2; pi 32

Chaozhou: pi 21

Fuzhou: pi 2

Shanghai: pi 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: pi 2; phi 12

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