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Character: 妣
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
Fanqie: 筆旨
Rhyme class: 紙
English meaning : deceased (grand)mother, ancestress
Russian meaning[s]: покойная мать; предок по женской линии
Shuowen gloss: 歿母也. 從女. 比聲.
Comments: Also read MC pjì, OC *pijʔ-s id.
Radical: 38
Four-angle index: 6932
Karlgren code: 0566 n-o
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pĭjH
Meaning: grandmother
Tibetan: phji grandmother.
Burmese: phijh grandmother, LB *phijx.
Kachin: (H) čhjiŋ-phji a very old mother.
Lushai: pi a grandmother.
Comments: BG: Garo a-bi, Bodo bǝ́y grandmother; Kanauri a-pi; Bahing, Vayu pi-pi. Sh. 132, Ben 21.
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