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幣

幣

See also: 币

Translingual

Han character

幣 (radical 50 巾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火大中月 (FKLB), four-corner 98227, composition ⿱敝巾)

References

  • KangXi: page 337, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9088
  • Dae Jaweon: page 644, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 753, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5E63

Chinese

trad. 幣
simp. 币

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蔽 *peds
鄨 *peds, *ped
鷩 *peds, *ped
彆 *peds, *peːd
潎 *pʰeds, *pʰed
斃 *beds, *bed
敝 *beds, *bed
幣 *beds
弊 *beds
鱉 *ped
虌 *ped
憋 *ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥 *pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅 *pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳 *bed, *pʰeːd
撇 *pʰeːd
撆 *pʰeːd
暼 *pʰeːd
蹩 *beːd
襒 *beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *beds) : phonetic 敝 ‎(OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 巾 ‎(“towel”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 幣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 祭 (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 毗祭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /biᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /biajH/
Li
Rong		 /biɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /bĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 幣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjiejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]e[t]-s/
English offering of silk

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 幣
Reading # 1/1
No. 634
Phonetic
component		 敝
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 獘
Old
Chinese		 /*beds/

Definitions

幣

  1. currency, coins

Compounds

  • 幣值／币值
  • 幣制／币制

Japanese

Kanji

幣

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

幣 • ‎(pye) (hangeul 폐, McCune-Reischauer p'ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

幣 (tệ, giẻ)

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