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敝

敝

Translingual

Han character

敝 (radical 66 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火月人大 (FBOK), four-corner 98240, composition ⿰㡀攵)

  1. break, destroy
  2. broken, tattered

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 472, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 824, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1461, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+655D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 敝

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, *bed) : phonetic 㡀 + semantic 攴.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 敝
Mandarin Beijing /pi⁵¹/
Harbin /pi⁵³/
Tianjin /pi⁵³/
Jinan /pi²¹/
Qingdao /pi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pi³¹²/
Xi'an /pi⁴⁴/
Xining /pji²¹³/
Yinchuan /pi¹³/
Lanzhou /pi¹³/
Ürümqi /pi²¹³/
Wuhan /pi³⁵/
Chengdu /pi¹³/
Guiyang /pi⁴²/
Kunming /pi²¹²/
Nanjing /pi⁴⁴/
Hefei /pz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pi⁴⁵/
Pingyao
Hohhot /pi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /bi²³/
Suzhou /bi³¹/
Hangzhou /bi¹³/
Wenzhou /bei²²/
Hui Shexian /pi³²⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /pei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /pəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /pʰi²¹/
Hakka Meixian /pi⁵³/
Taoyuan /pi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pɐi²²/
Nanning /pi²²/
Hong Kong /pɐi²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pe²²/
/pe²¹/ 俗
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pɛi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pi⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pi³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbi³³/
Rime
Character 敝
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 敝
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjiejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]e[t]-s/
English destroy; worn out

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 敝 敝
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 633 645
Phonetic
component		 敝 敝
Rime
group		 祭 月
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 獘 獘
Old
Chinese		 /*beds/ /*bed/

Definitions

敝

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Compounds

  • 凋敝 (diāobì)
  • 千金敝帚
  • 如棄敝屣／如弃敝屣
  • 季子裘敝
  • 彫敝
  • 悉索敝賦／悉索敝赋
  • 振衰起敝
  • 敝上
  • 敝人
  • 敝友
  • 敝國／敝国
  • 敝地
  • 敝塾
  • 敝屣
  • 敝屣尊榮／敝屣尊荣
  • 敝屣王侯
  • 敝屣自珍
  • 敝屣視之／敝屣视之
  • 敝帚千金
  • 敝帚自珍
  • 敝房
  • 敝眷
  • 敝笱
  • 敝膝
  • 敝處／敝处
  • 敝號／敝号
  • 敝蹝
  • 敝鬼
  • 棄若敝屣／弃若敝屣
  • 民生凋敝
  • 民生彫敝
  • 疲敝
  • 罷敝／罢敝
  • 脣焦舌敝／唇焦舌敝
  • 舌敝脣焦／舌敝唇焦
  • 蠱敝／蛊敝
  • 視如敝屣／视如敝屣
  • 靡敝

Japanese

Kanji

敝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

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