Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 披

Modern (Beijing) reading: pī

Preclassic Old Chinese: phaj

Classic Old Chinese: phaj

Western Han Chinese: phaj

Eastern Han Chinese: phe

Early Postclassic Chinese: phe

Middle Postclassic Chinese: phe

Late Postclassic Chinese: phe

Middle Chinese: phe

English meaning : divide, disperse [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) раскрыть, развернуть; 2) пробегать, просматривать (книгу); 3) рассеять(ся); растерять(ся); 4) накинуть (платье)

Comments: Also read *paj-s, MC pè, Pek. bì 'side supports (ropes on coffin)'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 64

Four-angle index: 6091

Karlgren code: 0025 j

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ph(j)ăj

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: divide, split; open

Chinese: 披 *ph(r)aj divide, disperse; open.

Tibetan: ãbjed (p., i. phje(d), phjes, f. dbje) to open.

Burmese: phajʔ to split off, be split.

Comments: BG: Dimasa bai break, sabai id., gabai broken, phai hatch, Garo be break, broken, pe break down, Bodo báy to break (into). Ben. 59; Luce 13. STEDT 129-130 *pay (but Lush. peʔ hardly belongs here, see *phjǝ̆k); cf. *p(h)raj(H).

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 571

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 披

MC description : 止開三平支滂

ZIHUI: 2126 0548

Beijing: phi 11; phei 11

Jinan: phei 11

Xi'an: phɛ 11

Taiyuan: phi 1

Hankou: phei 11

Chengdu: phei 11

Yangzhou: phi 11

Suzhou: phi 11

Wenzhou: phei 11

Changsha: phi 11; phei 11

Shuangfeng: phi 11

Nanchang: phi 11

Meixian: phi 11

Guangzhou: phei 11

Xiamen: phi XH

Chaozhou: phi 11

Fuzhou: phie 11

Shanghai: phi 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: phei 1

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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *bV́jV ???

Meaning: to split, separate; different

Sino-Tibetan: *ph(j)ăj

Yenisseian: *beʔ-

Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *beʔ-

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: different, separate

Ket: bɛlɨŋ⁵; bɛnǝ⁵ / bɛne⁵ "separately"; (Werner 1, 118) bɛʔĺ 'different'

Yug: bɛnɨŋ⁵ "separately"; (Werner 1, 118) bɛʔĺ 'different'

Kottish: palakŋ 'besonders'

Comments: Werner 1, 112, 113, 118, 2, 52 <*belǝŋ 'abgesondert>. In ССЕ 207, 209 the root is erroneously reconstructed twice - as *be- and *b[ǝ]l-.