Hanja Analyzer
髀

髀 — bi, pye

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
넓적다리 비, 볼기짝 폐
Romanization
bi, pye
English
buttocks; thigh, thigh bone
Mandarin
bì
Japanese on'yomi
ヒ, ミ, ヘイ, ベイ, ビ
Japanese kun'yomi
もも
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
17
Radical
骨 (188, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
卑(비)
Unicode
U+9AC0

Parts that make up 髀

  • 骨 뼈 골 살 붙은 뼈마디뼈와 몸의 틀
  • 卑 낮을 비sound 부채를 든 손낮다. ‘비·패’ 계열의 소리

How 髀 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 髀 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 骨, 卑.

Japanese words with 髀

  • 髀肉ひにく round meat; meat from a pig's thigh (from which ham is made)
  • 髀臼ひきゅう acetabulum; cotyloid cavity
  • 髀肉の嘆ひにくのたん fretting about forced idleness
  • 周髀算経しゅうひさんけい Zhoubi Suanjing (ancient Chinese text on mathematics)

Characters sharing the phonetic 卑

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “비” in Korean.

Other hanja read “비”

Other hanja with radical 骨

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