碧落

Chinese

		green jade; bluish green; blue green jade; bluish green; blue; jade	to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind
trad. (碧落)		碧	落
simp. #(碧落)		碧	落

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bìluò

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄌㄨㄛˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìluò
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄌㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìluò
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴-lo⁴
    • Yale: bì-lwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihluoh
    • Palladius: било (bilo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ lu̯ɔ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjiek lak

Rime
Character	碧	落
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	昔 (124)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	彼役切	盧各切
Baxter	pjiek	lak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pwiᴇk̚/	/lɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷiɛk̚/	/lɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piuæk̚/	/lɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pwiajk̚/	/lak̚/
Li Rong	/piuɛk̚/	/lɑk̚/
Wang Li	/pĭwɛk̚/	/lɑk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯wɛk̚/	/lɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bi	luò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bik1	lok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*prak  kə.rˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*praɡ|preɡ  ɡ·raːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	碧	落
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì	luò
Middle Chinese	‹ pjæk ›	‹ lak ›
Old Chinese	/*prak/	/*kə.rˁak/
English	light blue	fall (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	碧	碧	落
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
No.	219	221	3880
Phonetic component	白	白	各
Rime group	鐸	鐸	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	碧	碧	落
Old Chinese	/*praɡ/	/*preɡ/	/*ɡ·raːɡ/

Noun

碧落

1. (literary, Taoism) sky; blue sky

Synonyms

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• 碧空 (bìkōng) (literary)
• 蒼天／苍天 (cāngtiān) (literary)
• 蒼旻／苍旻 (cāngmín) (literary)
• 蒼穹／苍穹 (cāngqióng) (literary)
• 藍天／蓝天 (lántiān)
• 青天 (qīngtiān)
• 青空 (qīngkōng) (literary)

 

Derived terms

• 上窮碧落下黃泉／上穷碧落下黄泉 (shàng qióng bìluò xià huángquán)
• 碧落侍郎
• 碧落界
• 碧落碑
• 碧落黃泉／碧落黄泉

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
碧	落
へき Jinmeiyō	らく Grade: 3
on'yomi

Noun

碧(へき)落(らく) • (hekiraku) 

1. blue sky

   Synonyms: 青空 (“aozora”), 碧空 (“hekikū”), 碧天 (“hekiten”)

2. (figurative) a far off place