Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 北

Modern (Beijing) reading: běi

Preclassic Old Chinese: pǝ̄k

Classic Old Chinese: pǝ̄k

Western Han Chinese: pǝ̄k

Eastern Han Chinese: pǝ̄k

Early Postclassic Chinese: pǝ̄k

Middle Postclassic Chinese: pǝ̄k

Late Postclassic Chinese: pǝ̄k

Middle Chinese: pʌk

Fanqie: 補黑 [a] 布誨 [b]

Rhyme class: 職 [a] 隊 [b]

English meaning : North

Russian meaning[s]: 1) север; Норд; северный; идти на север; 2) потерпеть поражение; [bò] нарушать; [bèi] 1) разделять, разграничивать; различный; 2) спина, вм. 背

Shuowen gloss: ??也. 從二. 人相背. 凡北之屬皆從北.

Comments: For etymology see 背 *pǝ̄k-s 'back'.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 21

Four-angle index: 6987

Karlgren code: 0909 a-d

Vietnamese reading: bắc,â

Jianchuan Bai: pɨ6

Dali Bai: pɨ6

Shijing occurrences: 40.1, 41.1, 41.2, 48.2_, 57.4

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