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倍

倍

倍 U+500D, 倍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-500D
← 倌
[U+500C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倎 →
[U+500E]

Translingual

Han character

倍 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人卜廿口 (OYTR), four-corner 20261, composition ⿰亻咅)

References

  • KangXi: page 107, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 760
  • Dae Jaweon: page 228, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 183, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+500D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 倍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倍
Large seal script

L15317
Small seal script

s05828
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (咅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蓓 *bɯːʔ, *bɯːʔ
倍 *bɯːʔ
菩 *bɯːʔ, *bɯʔ, *bɯː, *bɯːɡ
掊 *bruː, *poːʔ, *bɯ, *bɯ
剖 *pʰoːʔ, *pʰoʔ
婄 *pʰɯʔ, *bɯʔ, *bɯː
踣 *pʰɯs, *bɯːɡ
箁 *bɯ
咅 *pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs
部 *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ
培 *boːʔ, *bɯː
犃 *boːʔ
瓿 *boːʔ, *bɯ, *bo
殕 *pɯʔ, *pʰoʔ, *qɯːɡ
醅 *pʰɯ, *pʰɯː
棓 *bɯ, *broːŋʔ, *bɯː
涪 *bɯ
賠 *bɯː
陪 *bɯː
毰 *bɯː
焙 *bɯːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bɯːʔ) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 咅 ‎(OC *pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 倍
Mandarin Beijing /pei⁵¹/
Harbin /pei⁵³/
Tianjin /pei⁵³/
Jinan /pei²¹/
Qingdao /pe⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pei³¹²/
Xi'an /pʰei⁴⁴/
Xining /pʰɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /pei¹³/
Lanzhou /pei¹³/
Ürümqi /pei²¹³/
Wuhan /pei³⁵/
Chengdu /pei¹³/
Guiyang /pei²¹³/
Kunming /pei²¹²/
Nanjing /pəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /pe⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pæ³⁵/
Hohhot /pei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /be²³/
Suzhou /be̞³¹/
Hangzhou /bei¹³/
Wenzhou /bai³⁵/
Hui Shexian /pʰɛ²²/
Tunxi /pə²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /pei⁵⁵/
/pei¹¹/
Xiangtan /bəi²¹/
Gan Nanchang /pʰi²¹/
Hakka Meixian /pʰi⁵³/
Taoyuan /pʰoi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰui²³/
Nanning /pʰui²⁴/
Hong Kong /pʰui¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pue²²/
/pe²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /puɔi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /po⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pue³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbui³³/
Rime
Character 倍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 薄亥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bəiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bəjX/
Li
Rong		 /bᴀiX/
Wang
Li		 /bɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倍
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bèi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bwojX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ˤəʔ/
English double

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 倍
Reading # 1/1
No. 9837
Phonetic
component		 咅
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 倍
Old
Chinese		 /*bɯːʔ/

Definitions

倍

  1. to double
  2. Classifier for the number of times a value is multiplied: times; -fold
    一百倍  ―  yībǎi bèi  ―  hundredfold; one hundred times
  3. exceptionally; especially
  4. (Mandarin, colloquial, erhua-ed) very; extremely

Compounds

  • 倍日并行
  • 倍比定律
  • 倍率
  • 倍畔
  • 倍稱／倍称
  • 倍蓰
  • 倍覺／倍觉
  • 倍足綱／倍足纲
  • 倍道 (bèidào)
  • 倍道兼行
  • 倍道兼進／倍道兼进
  • 偏倍
  • 公倍數／公倍数
  • 兼倍
  • 利市三倍
  • 力倍功半
  • 加倍 (jiābèi)
  • 勇氣百倍／勇气百倍 (yǒngqì bǎibèi)
  • 半價倍息／半价倍息
  • 單倍體／单倍体
  • 獲利倍蓰／获利倍蓰
  • 百倍 (bǎibèi)
  • 聲價十倍／声价十倍
  • 身價百倍／身价百倍
  • 鄙倍
  • 雙倍／双倍

Japanese

Kanji

倍

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

  • 一倍
  • 一粒万倍
  • 数倍
  • 逓倍
  • 人一倍
  • 勇気百倍
  • 倍音
  • 倍加
  • 倍額
  • 倍旧
  • 五倍子
  • 倍数
  • 倍精度
  • 安倍川餅
  • 倍増
  • 倍大
  • 倍率

Noun

倍 ‎(hiragana ばい, romaji bai)

  1. twice, double, two times
    彼 (かれ)の家 (いえ)は私 (わたし)の家 (いえ)の倍 (ばい)の大 (おお)きさだ。
    Kare no ie wa watashi no ie no bai no ōkisa da.
    His house is twice the size of mine.
    倍 (ばい)にする
    bai ni suru
    to double

Antonyms

Suffix

倍 ‎(hiragana ばい, romaji -bai)

  1. times, -fold
    この飛行機 (ひこうき)はあの飛行機 (ひこうき)よりも３倍速 (さんばいはや)い。
    Kono hikōki wa ano hikōki yori mo san-bai hayai.
    This plane is a whole 3 times faster than that plane.
    4の5倍 (ばい)
    4 no 5-bai
    4 times 5

Korean

Hanja

倍 • ‎(bae, pae) (hangeul 배, 패, revised bae, pae, McCune-Reischauer pae, p'ae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倍 (bội, bạu, bậu, bụa, buạ, vội)

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