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悲

悲

Translingual

Han character

悲 (radical 61 心+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中卜心 (LYP), four-corner 11331, composition ⿱非心)

  1. sorrow, grief
  2. sorry, sad

References

  • KangXi: page 388, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10720
  • Dae Jaweon: page 721, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2310, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+60B2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 悲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (非) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
啡 *pʰɯːlʔ
排 *brɯːl
俳 *brɯːl
輫 *brɯːl, *buːl
悲 *prɯl
棑 *breː, *brɯːls
輩 *puːls
裴 *buːl, *bɯl
徘 *buːl
琲 *buːlʔ
痱 *buːlʔ, *pɯds, *bɯl, *bɯls
非 *pɯl
扉 *pɯl
緋 *pɯl
猆 *pɯl
斐 *pɯl, *pʰɯlʔ
馡 *pɯl
騑 *pɯl, *pʰɯl
誹 *pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls
餥 *pɯl, *pɯlʔ
匪 *pɯlʔ
棐 *pɯlʔ
蜚 *pɯlʔ, *bɯls
篚 *pɯlʔ
榧 *pɯlʔ
鯡 *pɯls
霏 *pʰɯl
菲 *pʰɯl, *pʰɯlʔ, *bɯls
婔 *pʰɯl
裶 *pʰɯl
悱 *pʰɯlʔ
奜 *pʰɯlʔ
腓 *bɯl, *bɯls
陫 *bɯlʔ
屝 *bɯls
厞 *bɯls
翡 *bɯls

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 悲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 府眉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pji/
Li
Rong		 /pji/
Wang
Li		 /pi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 悲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bēi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*prəj/
English sad

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 悲
Reading # 1/1
No. 3067
Phonetic
component		 非
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 悲
Old
Chinese		 /*prɯl/

Definitions

悲

  1. grief, sorrow

References

Japanese

Kanji

悲

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. sad

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

悲 • ‎(bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

悲 (bi, bây, bầy, bay)

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Compounds

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