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卑
卑
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Translingual
Han character
卑 (radical 24 十+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹十 (HHJ), four-corner 26400)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 156, character 27
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2738
- Dae Jaweon: page 356, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 63, character 1
- Unihan data for U+5351
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
卑 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 卑
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| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (卑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 捭 | *preːʔ |
| 牌 | *breː, *breː |
| 郫 | *breː, *bre, *be |
| 蠯 | *breː, *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 猈 | *breːʔ, *breː |
| 稗 | *breːs |
| 粺 | *breːs |
| 𥱼 | *breː |
| 豍 | *peː |
| 箄 | *peː, *pe, *peʔ |
| 錍 | *pʰeː, *pe |
| 睥 | *pʰeːs |
| 渒 | *pʰeːs, *pe |
| 鼙 | *beː |
| 鞞 | *beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ |
| 椑 | *beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ |
| 崥 | *beː, *peʔ |
| 髀 | *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ |
| 卑 | *pe |
| 鵯 | *pe, *pʰiɡ |
| 裨 | *pe, *be |
| 痺 | *pe |
| 碑 | *pre |
| 婢 | *peʔ, *beʔ |
| 諀 | *pʰeʔ |
| 脾 | *be |
| 埤 | *be |
| 陴 | *be |
| 蜱 | *be, *mbew |
| 焷 | *be |
| 螷 | *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 庳 | *beʔ |
| 琕 | *biːŋ |
| 萆 | *beɡ, *slɯʔ |
| 綼 | *biɡ, *peːɡ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
- Wade-Giles: pei1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
- IPA (key): /peɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: bei1
- Yale: bēi
- Cantonese Pinyin: bei1
- IPA (key): /pei̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pi
- Tâi-lô: pi
- Phofsit Daibuun: py
- IPA (Xiamen): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pi³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 卑 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /pei⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /pei²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /pei²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /pe⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /pʰi⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /pi²¹/ | |
| Xining | /pji⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /pei⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /pi³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /pei⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /pei⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /pei⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /pei⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /pei⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /pəi³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /pe²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /pei¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /pei¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /pei³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /pe⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /pe̞⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /pei³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /pai³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /pe³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /pe¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /pei³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /pəi³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /pi⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | ||
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /pei⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /pi⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /pei⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /pi⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /pi⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /pi⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /pui³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ʔbɔi²³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 卑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 府移切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/piᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/piɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/pjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/piə̆/ |
| Li Rong |
/pie/ |
| Wang Li |
/pǐe/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
bī |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
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| Character | 卑 | 卑 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
bēi | bēi |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pjie › | ‹ pjie › |
| Old Chinese |
/*pe/ | /*pe/ |
| English | low, humble | 鮮卑 *s[a]r.pe Xiānbēi |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 卑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 368 |
| Phonetic component |
卑 |
| Rime group |
支 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
卑 |
| Old Chinese |
/*pe/ |
Definitions
卑
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Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
卑
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
卑 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi)
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