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Translingual

Han character

(radical 104 +5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大木竹水 (KDHE), four-corner 00147, composition)

  1. feel tired, be exhausted
  2. weak

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 770, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22084
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2669, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+75B2

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pral, *prals
*pral, *prals
*pralʔ
*pralʔ
*pralʔ, *prals
*prals
*prals, *paːlʔ
*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
*pʰral
*pʰral, *pʰrals
*pʰral
*pʰral
*pʰral
*pʰral
*pʰral, *brals
*pʰral, *pʰrals
*pʰralʔ, *paːl
*bral
*bral
*bralʔ, *brals
*brals
*brals
*mbralʔ
*paːl
*paːl, *baːl
*paːl
*paːlʔ, *paːls
*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
*pʰaːl
*pʰaːl
*pʰaːls
*baːl
*baːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bral) : semantic  (sick) + phonetic  (OC *bral) – sick and tired.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/biɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bjiə̆/
Li
Rong
/bje/
Wang
Li
/bǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bje ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b](r)aj/
English weary, exhausted

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. 9712
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bral/

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pi) (hangeul , revised pi, McCune-Reischauer p'i, Yale phi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, mệt)

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