鼻

Alternative forms

The form of this character differs slightly between China and Japan:

in China: 鼻,

in Japan: 鼻

That is, in China the bottom is 丌 (strokes T-junction), while in Japan the bottom is 廾 (strokes cross).

Han character

鼻 (radical 209 鼻+0, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹山田一中 (HUWML), four-corner 2644₆, composition ⿱自畀)

1. Kangxi radical #209, ⿐.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鼻
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *blids) : semantic 自 (“nose”) + phonetic 畀 (OC *pids). Originally written as 自 (OC *ɦljids), before it was borrowed for the sense of “self”.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bi (“nose”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

鼻

1. (anatomy) nose
2. nose-like object; protruding part or the handle of an object
   1. pinhole
   2. (geography) cape
3. initial; founding; beginning; original

   鼻祖  ―  bízǔ  ―  forefather; initiator

4. (dialectal) nasal mucus; snot
5. (Hakka, Min) to smell

Compounds

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. nose

Pronunciation

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Noun

鼻 (hiragana はな, rōmaji hana)

1. nose
2. (elephant or elephant seal) trunk

Etymology

From pointing to one's nose to refer to oneself.

Pronoun

鼻 (hiragana はな, rōmaji hana)

1. first-person personal male pronoun; I, me

Hanja

鼻 • (bi)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 비 (revised: bi, McCune–Reischauer: pi, Yale: pi)
  • Name (hangeul): 코 (revised: ko, McCune–Reischauer: k'o, Yale: kho)

1. nose

Han character

鼻 (tị)

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