弊

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 敝 + semantic 廾

Han character

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

1. evil, wrong, bad
2. criminal

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

弊 (jyutping bai6, Yale bai6)

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Japanese

Kanji

弊 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: へい (hei), へつ (hetsu)
• Kun: つかれる (tsukareru), くるしむ (kurushimu), やぶれる (yabureru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

弊 (pinyin bì (bi4), sān (san1), sàn (san4), Wade-Giles pi⁴, san¹, san⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

弊 (tệ, giẻ)