蔽芾

Chinese

		to cover; to shield; to screen to cover; to shield; to screen; to conceal	luxuriance of vegetation; small
trad. (蔽芾)		蔽	芾
simp. ^#(蔽芾)		蔽	芾

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bìfèi

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄈㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bai³ fai³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bìfèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄈㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bìfèi
  - Wade–Giles: pi⁴-fei⁴
  - Yale: bì-fèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihfey
  - Palladius: бифэй (bifɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ feɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bai³ fai³
  - Yale: bai fai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bai³ fai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: bei³ fei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯³³ fɐi̯³³/

Middle Chinese: pjiejH pj+jH

Rime
Character	蔽	芾
Reading #	1/1	1/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	必袂切	方味切
Baxter	pjiejH	pj+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇi^H/	/pʉi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛi^H/	/pʷɨi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæi^H/	/piuəi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piaj^H/	/puj^H/
Li Rong	/piɛi^H/	/piuəi^H/
Wang Li	/pĭɛi^H/	/pĭwəi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛi^H/	/pwe̯i^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì	fèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai³	fei³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*peds pubs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ pjiej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*pe[t]-s/
English	cover (v.)
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	蔽	芾
Reading #	1/1	2/3
No.	627	3295
Phonetic component	敝	巿
Rime group	祭	隊
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蔽	沸
Old Chinese	/*peds/	/*pubs/

Adjective

蔽芾

(literary, of vegetation) lush; luxuriant
(literary, of plants) young; small; immature