別

別 (radical 18, 刀+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口尸中弓 (RSLN), four-corner 6220₀, composition ⿰𠮠刂)

• 捌

• KangXi: page 138, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1924
• Dae Jaweon: page 312, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 328, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5225

Historical forms of the character 別
Shang	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 冎 (“bone”) + 刂 (“knife”) – to cut up bone and flesh.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brat (“cut apart, cut open”). Cognate to 八 (OC *preːd, “to divide; to differentiate”), 列 (OC *red), 裂 (OC *red).

Mei (2008) proposes that the intransitive sense "to leave, to part" (with voiced initial *b- in Middle Chinese) is primary and that the transitive sense "to discriminate, to discriminate" (with voiceless initial *p-) is derived from the intransitive sense with the Old Chinese causative prefix *s-, resulting in a devoicing effect: *s-b- > *s-p- > *p-; compare 黑 (OC *s-mək, “black”) from 墨 (OC *mək, “ink”). On the other hand, Sagart and Baxter (2012) consider the intransitive sense to be derived from the transitive sense (*pret) by prefixation of *N-, resulting in a voicing effect: *N-p- > *N-b- > *b-; compare 敗 (OC *N-pˤrat-s, “to suffer defeat”) from 敗 (OC *pˤrat-s, “to defeat”).

別

1. ^† to cut apart; to divide up
2. to divide; to separate
3. to distinguish; to differentiate; to discriminate

   區別 / 区别  ―  qūbié  ―  difference; to distinguish

4. distinction; difference; contrast
5. group; class; kind
6. to leave; to part
7. to see someone off
8. to pin; to clip
9. to turn; to change
10. to stick something in; to bolt
11. (Min Nan) to interpret (one's fortune); to predicate

    ⇒ 逼

    別籤詩 / 别签诗 [Min Nan]  ―  piat chhiam-si [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to interpret lottery poetry (poetry associated with fortune sticks)

12. another; other

    • 不要探聽別人的事。 [MSC, trad.]
      不要探听别人的事。 [MSC, simp.]

      Bùyào tàntīng biérén de shì. [Pinyin]

      Don't pry into other people's affairs.

    • 既然我們已經溫習夠了，不如做別的事情吧。 [MSC, trad.]
      既然我们已经温习够了，不如做别的事情吧。 [MSC, simp.]

      Jìrán wǒmen yǐjīng wēnxí gòu le, bùrú zuò bié de shìqíng ba. [Pinyin]

      Since we've studied enough, let's do something else.

13. special; unique; peculiar; particular
14. misspelled; erroneous
15. besides; in addition
16. by oneself; on one's own; separately
17. had better not; do not; don't

    別去！ / 别去！  ―  Bié qù!  ―  Don't go!

    • 請別在這裡拍照。 / 请别在这里拍照。  ―  Qǐng bié zài zhèlǐ pāizhào.  ―  Please do not take photos here.

    • 別忘了在你的信上貼張郵票。 [MSC, trad.]
      别忘了在你的信上贴张邮票。 [MSC, simp.]

      Bié wàng le zài nǐ de xìn shàng tiē zhāng yóupiào. [Pinyin]

      Don't forget to put a stamp on your letter.

18. particle used with 是 after it to express supposition, often an imagined unfavourable scenario
19. A surname​.

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: べち (bechi)
• Kan-on: へつ (hetsu)
• Kan’yō-on: べつ (betsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: わかれる (wakareru, 別れる, Jōyō); わける (wakeru, 別ける); わかれ (wakare)

別 (-na inflection, hiragana べつ, rōmaji betsu)

1. different, separate, another

別 (hiragana べつ, rōmaji betsu)

1. not particularly; not specially (used with a negative verb)

• 別 (べつ)に (betsu ni)

別 (hiragana べつ, rōmaji betsu)

1. difference, another, exception

別 • (byeol) (hangeul 별, revised byeol, McCune–Reischauer pyŏl)

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別 (biệt, biết, bét, bết, bệt, bịt, bẹt, bít)

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