僻

僻 U+50FB, 僻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50FB
← 僺
[U+50FA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 僼 →
[U+50FC]

Translingual

Han character

僻 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人尸口十 (OSRJ), four-corner 20241, composition ⿰亻辟)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 118, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1166
  • Dae Jaweon: page 250, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 229, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+50FB

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 僻
2nd round simp. 辟
alternative forms 𠈳
𠒱

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 僻
Small seal script

s05842

Transcribed ancient scripts

L28539

L28540

L28541

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (辟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嬖 *peːɡs
薜 *beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾 *beːɡs
臂 *peɡs
譬 *pʰeɡs
避 *beɡs
檗 *preːɡ
擘 *preːɡ
糪 *preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰 *preːɡ
繴 *breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟 *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧 *peɡ
鐴 *peɡ
躄 *peɡ
襞 *peɡ
僻 *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖 *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦 *pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗 *beɡ
躃 *beɡ
闢 *beɡ
壁 *peːɡ
鼊 *peːɡ
霹 *pʰeːɡ
劈 *pʰeːɡ
澼 *pʰeːɡ
憵 *pʰeːɡ
甓 *beːɡ
鷿 *beːɡ
幦 *mbeːɡ

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • piáh, piéh - vernacular;
  • pék - literary.
Rime
Character 僻 僻
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 滂 (2) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 昔 (123) 錫 (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III IV
Fanqie 芳辟切 普擊切
Baxter phjiek phek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰiᴇk̚/ /pʰek̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰiɛk̚/ /pʰek̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰiæk̚/ /pʰɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰiajk̚/ /pʰɛjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /pʰiɛk̚/ /pʰek̚/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭɛk̚/ /pʰiek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰi̯ɛk̚/ /pʰiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pi pi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 pik1 pik1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 僻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 pì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phjiek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰek/
English perverse

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 僻 僻
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 680 697
Phonetic
component		 辟 辟
Rime
group		 錫 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 僻 霹
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰeɡ/ /*pʰeːɡ/

Definitions

僻

  1. † to avoid; to evade
  2. † unorthodox
  3. remote; out of the way
    偏僻  ―  piānpì  ―  remote; out of the way
    荒僻  ―  huāngpì  ―  desolate
  4. uncommon; rare
    生僻  ―  shēngpì  ―  uncommon; rare (characters, words, etc.)
    僻字  ―  pìzì  ―  rare characters
  5. eccentric; odd; peculiar
    孤僻  ―  gūpì  ―  peculiar; eccentric
  6. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) codewords used in certain professions or gangs
Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

僻

  1. Alternative form of 背 (“remote; secluded; out-of-the-way”)
Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji
僻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 僻 (MC phjiek|phek). Recorded as Middle Korean 벽 (pyek) (Yale: pyek) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 僻 (eumhun 후미질 벽 (humijil byeok))

  1. Hanja form? of 벽 (“remote; out of the way”).
  2. Hanja form? of 벽 (“uncommon; rare”).

Compounds
Compounds

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

Vietnamese

Han character

僻: Hán Nôm readings: tịch

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References
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