鼻

鼻 U+9F3B, 鼻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F3B ← 鼺 [U+9F3A] CJK Unified Ideographs 鼼 → [U+9F3C]

⿐ U+2FD0, ⿐ KANGXI RADICAL NOSE ← ⿏ [U+2FCF] Kangxi Radicals ⿑ → [U+2FD1]

鼻 U+2FA1C, 鼻 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA1C ← 鼖 [U+2FA1B] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𪘀 → [U+2FA1D]

Stroke order

Japanese	鼻
Simplified	鼻
Traditional	鼻

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).

Due to Han unification, they share the same codepoint.

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

1. Kangxi radical #209, ⿐.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/鼻
• 𠏿, 嚊, 𪤨, 嬶, 𡽶, 擤, 濞, 𮥭, 𭢷, 䑄, 襣, 𦤫, 𧓧, 𧗗
• 劓, 𨞳, 𦫱, 𩕬, 𫗅, 䕗, 𢋛, 𤻖

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1530, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48498
• Dae Jaweon: page 2066, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4779, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9F3B

• Unihan data for U+2FA1C

simp. and trad.		鼻
2nd round simp.		𢍂

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *blids): phonetic 自 (OC *ɦljids, “nose”) + phonetic 畀 (OC *pids).

自 (OC *ɦljids) originally meant “nose” but came to be used to mean “self”, so the sense of “nose” has been replaced by 鼻 (OC *blids). Some scholars interpret 鼻 (OC *blids) as a combination of a nose (自 (OC *ɦljids)) and two lungs (畀 (OC *pids)), however 畀 on oracle bones represents an arrow.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bi (“nose”); compare Nuosu ꅳꁖ (hnap bbit, “nose; snot”).

Alternatively, it may be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-brit (“sneeze; nose; swallow”), whence Tibetan སྦྲིད (sbrid, “sneeze”), but there is no trace of r in Chinese (Schuessler, 2007).

In some modern lects, including Mandarin, Gan, Jin, Wu, and Xiang, and even in the literary layer of some Min dialects, the word reflects a form with final *-t. For example, in standard Mandarin, the word is pronounced bí (implying an old entering tone) instead of bì (the expected reflex from the departing tone in Middle Chinese). This is due to a phonological phenomenon in the northwest, either an early loss of *-s in the *-ts cluster before regular final cluster simplification occurred (Baxter, 1992), or a dialectal change from *-s to *-t (Pulleybank, 1998).

鼻

1. (anatomy) nose (Classifier: 個／个 c; 支 mn)
2. nose-like object, protruding part
   1. handle
   2. pinhole
   3. (geography) cape
3. initial; founding; beginning; original

   鼻祖  ―  bízǔ  ―  forefather; initiator

4. (dialectal) nasal mucus; snot
5. (archaic or Hakka, Min) to smell
6. (Northern Min, including Songxi Northern Min, Shibei) to kiss

• “鼻”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “鼻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “鼻”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 161.

Shinjitai	鼻
Kyūjitai [1]	鼻󠄁 鼻+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	鼻󠄃 鼻+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. nose

• Go-on: び (bi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: はな (hana, 鼻, Jōyō)、はじめ (hajime, 鼻め)

Kanji in this term
鼻
はな Grade: 3
kun'yomi

From Proto-Japonic *pana. The sense as a pronoun is from pointing to one's nose to refer to oneself.

• (Tokyo) はな [hàná] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠na̠]

• Audio:

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鼻(はな) • (hana) 

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

鼻(はな) • (hana) 

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

• 鼻(はな)様(さま) (hanasama)

• “鼻”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

From Middle Chinese 鼻 (MC bjijH).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	삥〮 (Yale: ppí)
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
	Gloss (hun)	Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[4]	고〮 (Yale: kwó)	비〯 (Yale: pǐ)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pi(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [비(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

鼻 (eumhun 코 비 (ko bi))

1. hanja form^? of 비 (“nose; nasal; rhino-”)

   비호흡(鼻呼吸) ― nasal respiration

   비음(鼻音) ― a nasal sound

   비모음(鼻母音) ― nasal vowel

   부비강(副鼻腔) ― sinus

   비염(鼻炎) ― rhinitis

   이비인후과(耳鼻咽喉科) ― otorhinolaryngology

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [5]

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ぱなー (panā, 鼻)

• IPA^(key): /pʰanaː/

鼻(ぱなー) (panā) 

1. nose

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ぱな (pana, 鼻)

• IPA^(key): /pana/

鼻(ぱな) (pana) 

1. nose

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: はな (hana, 鼻, Jōyō)

• IPA^(key): /hana/

鼻(はな) (hana) 

1. (anatomy) nose

• “ハナ” in Okinawa Center of Language Study, Shuri-Naha Dialect Dictionary (archived; reopens 2024).

鼻: Hán Nôm readings: tị

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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ぱな (pana, 鼻)

• IPA^(key): /pana/

鼻(ぱな) (pana) 

1. nose

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: はなぶる (hanaburu, 鼻ぶる)