陂 · pí
dam, embankment; reservoir
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
dam, embankment; reservoir
- Mandarin
- pí
- Cantonese
- bei1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 陂 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 피
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+9642
- Radical
- 阜 · 170
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 陂
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 皮 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 皮聲
Line 12145 · ⿰阝皮 · 皮聲 · source reference 5000090
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- pje · 彼爲 反切 · #100
- Middle Chinese
- pjeH · 彼義 反切 · #2160
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 849 · pje = 止開三平支幫 · pjeH = 止開三去支幫
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- pí
- kCantonese
- bei1
- kDefinition
- dam, embankment; reservoir
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 170.5
- kTGH
- 2013:3804
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- bēi,bì,pō,pí 64124.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bēi 0045.040 · pí 0869.060 · pō 0884.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- pí 280.150
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- bēi粵bei1 pí粵pei4 pō粵po1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 彼爲 彼義
- Kangxi positions
- 1348.100
- Guangyun positions
- 043.23 347.04
- GSR references
- 0025i
- Cangjie
- NLDHE
- Four-corner
- 7424.7