幣

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 敝 + semantic 巾 (“‘towel’”)

[edit] Han character

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

1. currency, coins, legal tender

[edit] 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

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

幣 (simplified 币, Yale bai6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

幣 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: へい (hei)
• Kun: ぬさ (nusa), たから (takara), ぜに (zeni)

[edit] Compounds

• 貨幣 (かへい, kahei), “‘currency’”)
• 紙幣 (しへい, shihei), “‘paper money, bill, note’”)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

幣 (simplified 币, pinyin bì (bi4), chàn (chan4), Wade-Giles pi⁴, ch'an⁴)