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Translingual

Han character

(radical 55 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火大廿 (FKT), four-corner 98444, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 354, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9644
  • Dae Jaweon: page 670, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 518, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5F0A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*peds
*peds, *ped
*peds, *ped
*peds, *peːd
*pʰeds, *pʰed
*beds, *bed
*beds, *bed
*beds
*beds
*ped
*ped
*ped, *pʰed, *peːd
*pʰed, *pʰeːd
*pʰed, *pʰeːd
*bed, *pʰeːd
*pʰeːd
*pʰeːd
*pʰeːd
*beːd
*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *beds) : phonetic  (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic .

Pronunciation



Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 635
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*beds/
Notes

Definitions

  1. fraud; harm; malpractice; deceit
  2. drawback; defect
  3. (Cantonese) used to indicate a realisation that something is wrong: oh no; oh crap

Compounds

  • 作弊 (zuòbì)
  • 凋弊
  • 切中時弊切中时弊
  • 利多於弊利多于弊
  • 利弊 (lìbì)
  • 利弊互見利弊互见
  • 利弊參半利弊参半
  • 利弊得失
  • 宿弊
  • 弊倖弊幸
  • 弊害
  • 弊履
  • 弊帚千金
  • 弊帚自珍
  • 弊政
  • 弊案
  • 弊病 (bìbìng)
  • 弊竇弊窦
  • 弊端 (bìduān)
  • 弊絕風清弊绝风清
  • 弊衣疏食
  • 弊衣簞食弊衣箪食
  • 弊車羸馬弊车羸马
  • 弊車駑馬弊车驽马
  • 徇私作弊
  • 徇私舞弊
  • 時弊时弊 (shíbì)
  • 杜弊
  • 歲弊岁弊
  • 民力凋弊
  • 流弊 (liúbì)
  • 為法自弊为法自弊
  • 無私有弊无私有弊
  • 營私舞弊营私舞弊
  • 疲弊
  • 百弊叢生百弊丛生
  • 私弊
  • 積久弊生积久弊生
  • 積弊积弊
  • 罷弊罢弊
  • 興利剔弊兴利剔弊
  • 興利除弊兴利除弊
  • 舌弊耳聾舌弊耳聋
  • 舞弊
  • 裘弊金盡裘弊金尽
  • 補偏救弊补偏救弊
  • 貪汙舞弊贪污舞弊
  • 醫時救弊医时救弊
  • 金舌弊口
  • 防弊除害
  • 除弊
  • 革弊
  • 風清弊絕风清弊绝
  • 齒弊舌存齿弊舌存

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. abuse

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pye) (hangeul , revised pye, McCune-Reischauer p'ye, Yale phyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tệ, giẻ)

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