砒

砒 U+7812, 砒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7812 ← 砑 [U+7811] CJK Unified Ideographs 砓 → [U+7813]

Translingual

Han character

砒 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一口心心 (MRPP), four-corner 1161₀, composition ⿰石比)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 828, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24068
• Dae Jaweon: page 1242, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2419, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7812

Chinese

trad.		砒
simp. #		砒
alternative forms		磇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (比) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
梐	*piː, *biːʔ
狴	*piː
悂	*piː, *pʰi
螕	*piː
鎞	*piː
蓖	*piː
篦	*piː, *bis
批	*pʰiː
砒	*pʰiː
鈚	*pʰiː, *bi
磇	*pʰiː
媲	*pʰiːs
笓	*biː
膍	*biː, *bi
陛	*biːʔ
仳	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ
吡	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
比	*piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ
妣	*piʔ, *pis
秕	*piʔ
沘	*piʔ, *bi
枇	*piʔ, *bi, *bis
粊	*pris
庇	*pis
屁	*pʰis
琵	*bi
毗	*bi
貔	*bi
豼	*bi
蚍	*bi
芘	*bi, *bis
肶	*bi
魮	*bi
阰	*bi
坒	*bis, *biɡ
玭	*bin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰiː) : semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pī (pi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pī
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pi
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi¹
    • Yale: pī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pi
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pei¹
    • Yale: pēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phe
    • Tâi-lô: phe
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phef
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰe⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰe³³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰiː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	砒
Reading #	1/1
No.	500
Phonetic component	比
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	磇
Old Chinese	/*pʰiː/
Notes	廣韻作磇集韻此爲正

Definitions

砒

1. Used in 砒霜 (pīshuāng).
2. (obsolete) Synonym of 砷 (shēn)

Compounds

• 白砒 (báipī)
• 砒霜 (pīshuāng)
• 紅砒／红砒
• 蜜餞砒霜／蜜饯砒霜 (mìjiànpīshuāng)

 

Japanese

Kanji

砒

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. arsenic

Readings

• Go-on: はい (hai)
• Kan-on: へい (hei)
• Kan’yō-on: ひ (hi)

Compounds

Compounds

• 亜砒酸(あひさん) (ahisan, “arsenious acid”)
• ガリウム砒素(ひそ) (gariumu hiso)
• 酸化砒素(さんかひそ) (sanka hiso)
• 砒化(ひか) (hika, “arsenication”)
• 砒化水素(ひかすいそ) (hika suiso, “arsine”)
• 砒酸(ひさん) (hisan, “arsenic acid”)
• 砒酸鉛(ひさんなまり) (hisan namari)
• 砒石(ひせき) (hiseki)
• 砒素(ひそ) (hiso, “arsenic”)
• 砒霜石(ひそうせき) (hisōseki)
• 砒素剤(ひそざい) (hisozai)
• 無水亜砒酸(むすいあひさん) (musui ahisan)
• 硫砒鉄鉱(りゅうひてっこう) (ryūhi tekkō)

Korean

Hanja

砒 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

1. arsenic