扉

扉 U+6249, 扉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6249 ← 扈 [U+6248] CJK Unified Ideographs 扊 → [U+624A]

Translingual

Japanese	扉
Simplified	扉
Traditional	扉

Han character

扉 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸中一卜 (HSLMY) or 戈尸中一卜 (ISLMY), four-corner 3021₁, composition ⿸户非(G) or ⿸戶非(HTK) or ⿸戸非(J))

Derived characters

• 𢵞

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 416, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11750
• Dae Jaweon: page 761, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2264, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6249

Chinese

trad.		扉
simp. #		扉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
啡	*pʰɯːlʔ
排	*brɯːl
俳	*brɯːl
輫	*brɯːl, *buːl
悲	*prɯl
棑	*breː, *brɯːls
輩	*puːls
裴	*buːl, *bɯl
徘	*buːl
琲	*buːlʔ
痱	*buːlʔ, *pɯds, *bɯl, *bɯls
非	*pɯl
扉	*pɯl
緋	*pɯl
猆	*pɯl
斐	*pɯl, *pʰɯlʔ
馡	*pɯl
騑	*pɯl, *pʰɯl
誹	*pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls
餥	*pɯl, *pɯlʔ
匪	*pɯlʔ
棐	*pɯlʔ
蜚	*pɯlʔ, *bɯls
篚	*pɯlʔ
榧	*pɯlʔ
鯡	*pɯls
霏	*pʰɯl
菲	*pʰɯl, *pʰɯlʔ, *bɯls
婔	*pʰɯl
裶	*pʰɯl
悱	*pʰɯlʔ
奜	*pʰɯlʔ
腓	*bɯl, *bɯls
陫	*bɯlʔ
屝	*bɯls
厞	*bɯls
翡	*bɯls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pɯl) : semantic 戶 + phonetic 非 (OC *pɯl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēi (fei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fei¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fî
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hui

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fei
    • Wade–Giles: fei¹
    • Yale: fēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fei
    • Palladius: фэй (fɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fei¹
    • Yale: fēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: féi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fei̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fî
    • Hakka Romanization System: fi´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fi²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hui
    • Tâi-lô: hui
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hui³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hui⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: pj+j

Rime
Character	扉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	甫微切
Baxter	pj+j
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉi/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷɨi/
Shao Rongfen	/piuəi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puj/
Li Rong	/piuəi/
Wang Li	/pĭwəi/
Bernard Karlgren	/pwe̯i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fei1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pə[j]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	扉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fēi
Middle Chinese	‹ pjɨj ›
Old Chinese	/*pə[j]/
English	wooden door-leaf
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	扉
Reading #	1/1
No.	3077
Phonetic component	非
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	猆
Old Chinese	/*pɯl/

Definitions

扉

1. door panel; door leaf
2. door-like thing

Compounds

• 倚扉而望
• 單扉／单扉
• 圓扉／圆扉
• 圜扉
• 心扉 (xīnfēi)
• 扉畫／扉画
• 扉頁／扉页 (fēiyè)
• 柴扉 (cháifēi)
• 綸扉／纶扉
• 荊扉／荆扉
• 黃扉／黄扉

 

Japanese

Shinjitai	扉
Kyūjitai	扉󠄁 扉+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	扉󠄄 扉+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Alternative forms

扉 (tobira): a carved wooden door.

Kanji in this term
扉
とびら Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
闔

Kanji

扉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kun: とびら (tobira, 扉, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 開(かい)扉(ひ) (kaihi)
• 柴(さい)扉(ひ) (saihi)
• 鉄扉(てっぴ) (teppi)
• 門扉(もんぴ) (monpi)

Etymology

Originally a compound of 戸 (to, “door”) +‎ 片 (hira, “broad, flat thing”). The hira shifted to bira in Middle Japanese, an instance of

rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) とびら [tòbírá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [to̞bʲiɾa̠]

Noun

扉(とびら) • (tobira) 

1. a door (moving part of a hinged door that swings out or in, as opposed to a sliding door or the doorway as a whole)

   その扉(とびら)は永久(えいきゅう)に閉(と)ざされた。

   Sono tobira wa eikyū ni tozasareta.

   The door was closed for good.

2. (by extension) a title page

   Synonym: 標題紙 (hyōdaishi)

3. (figuratively) an entrance to something

Derived terms

• 回転(かいてん)扉(とびら) (kaiten tobira)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

扉: Hán Việt readings: phi
扉: Nôm readings: phi

1. chữ Hán form of phi (“entry gate”).
2. Nôm form of phi (“preface”).