noun

Meanings

  1. 1 used in the place name 漾濞 (a county in Yunnan) (classical)

Examples

Yàngbì Yízú zìzhìxiàn wèiyú Yúnnán xībù.
Yangbi Yi Autonomous County lies in western Yunnan.

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese. As bì it survives only in the Yunnan place name 漾濞; a separate classical reading pì was an onomatopoeia for a roaring sound. It joins the water radical with the phonetic .
register
Archaic and bound; today seen only in the place name and old texts, not in ordinary speech.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water
The three-drop water radical (the side form of ) fits the original water-related senses — a river name and the sound of rushing water.
phonetic
nose
Supplies the sound (reading shifted from bí to bì). It contributes only the phonetic frame, not its 'nose' meaning.

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