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U+5351, 卑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5351

[U+5350]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5352]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 24 +6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹十 (HHJ), four-corner 26400)

  1. low
  2. humble
  3. mean, ignoble
  4. abase, contemn, despise

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

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*preːʔ
*breː, *breː
*breː, *bre, *be
*breː, *be, *breːŋʔ
*breːʔ, *breː
*breːs
*breːs
𥱼 *breː
*peː
*peː, *pe, *peʔ
*pʰeː, *pe
*pʰeːs
*pʰeːs, *pe
*beː
*beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ
*beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ
*beː, *peʔ
*beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ
*pe
*pe, *pʰiɡ
*pe, *be
*pe
*pre
*peʔ, *beʔ
*pʰeʔ
*be
*be
*be
*be, *mbew
*be
*be, *breːŋʔ
*beʔ
*biːŋ
*beɡ, *slɯʔ
*biɡ, *peːɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
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
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
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;
* 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 368
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pe/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 不亢不卑
  • 不卑不亢 (bùbēibùkàng)
  • 不抗不卑
  • 位卑言高
  • 克順克卑克顺克卑
  • 前倨後卑前倨后卑
  • 卑下 (bēixià)
  • 卑人
  • 卑以自牧
  • 卑位
  • 卑侮
  • 卑俗
  • 卑劣 (bēiliè)
  • 卑劣手段
  • 卑卑
  • 卑南文化
  • 卑南族
  • 卑南鄉卑南乡
  • 卑宮卑宫
  • 卑宮菲食卑宫菲食
  • 卑微 (bēiwēi)
  • 卑怯 (bēiqiè)
  • 卑末
  • 卑梁之釁卑梁之衅
  • 卑汙卑污
  • 卑溼
  • 卑無高論卑无高论
  • 卑爾根卑尔根
  • 卑田院
  • 卑禮厚幣卑礼厚币
  • 卑職卑职
  • 卑薄
  • 卑見卑见
  • 卑親屬卑亲属
  • 卑論卑论
  • 卑謹卑谨
  • 卑讓卑让
  • 卑賤卑贱
  • 卑身
  • 卑躬屈節卑躬屈节
  • 卑躬屈膝
  • 卑辭厚禮卑辞厚礼
  • 卑鄙 (bēibǐ)
  • 卑鄙無恥卑鄙无耻
  • 卑鄙齷齪卑鄙龌龊
  • 卑金屬卑金属
  • 卑陋
  • 卑陋齷齪卑陋龌龊
  • 卑高
  • 天高聽卑天高听卑
  • 官卑祿薄官卑禄薄
  • 官卑職小官卑职小
  • 尊卑
  • 尊古卑今
  • 尊己卑人
  • 歎老嗟卑叹老嗟卑
  • 男尊女卑 (nánzūnnǚbēi)
  • 登高自卑
  • 自卑 (zìbēi)
  • 自卑感 (zìbēigǎn)
  • 菲食卑宮菲食卑宫
  • 謙卑谦卑 (qiānbēi)
  • 謙卑自牧谦卑自牧
  • 辭尊居卑辞尊居卑
  • 鮮卑鲜卑 (Xiānbēi)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(bi) (hangeul , revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(te, bấy, ti)

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