彼

Translingual

Han character

彼 (radical 60 彳+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹人木竹水 (HODHE), four-corner 2424₇)

1. that, there, those

References

• KangXi: page 365, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10066
• Dae Jaweon: page 685, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 817, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5F7C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

彼 (jyutping bei2, Yale bei2)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Short form of kare.

Pronoun

彼 (hiragana か, romaji ka)

1. distal demonstrative; something far off removed from both speaker and listener; that

Derived terms

• 彼の (kano)
• 彼 (kare)

Etymology 2

/ka/ > /a/, with loss of initial /k/.

Pronoun

彼 (hiragana あ, romaji a)

1. distal demonstrative; something far off removed from both speaker and listener; that

Derived terms

• 彼の (ano)
• 彼 (are)

Etymology 3

Compound of ka and suffix re. Long form of ka.

Pronoun

彼 (hiragana かれ, romaji kare)

1. distal demonstrative; something far off, removed from both speaker and listener; that
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 18, poem #4045)

     於伎敝欲里 美知久流之保能 伊也麻之尓 安我毛布支見我 弥不根可母加礼

2. third person pronoun; he, she
3. (particularly) male personal third person pronoun; he

Derived terms

• 彼 (are)

Etymology 4

/kare/ > /are/, with loss of initial /k/. Long form of a.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Japanese) Pitch Accent: あれ [0]

Pronoun

彼 (hiragana あれ, romaji are)

1. distal demonstrative; something far off, removed from both speaker and listener; that
2. third person pronoun; he, she, it
3. second person pronoun; you
4. a euphemism for sex; it

Etymology 5

From pronoun kare (“he”).

Noun

彼 (hiragana かれ, romaji kare)

1. boyfriend

Synonyms

• 彼氏 (かれし, kareshi)

Etymology 6

Kanji

彼 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ひ (hi)
• Kun: かれ (kare), かの (kano), あれ (are)

Compounds

• 彼方 (achira)
• 彼処 (asoko)
• 彼岸 (higan)
• 彼女 (kanojo)

See also

• 此, 是, 之 (ko, kore)
• 其 (so, sore)

References

• 2003 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man'yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240004-2:

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Korean

Hanja

彼
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 피 (revised: pi, McCune-Reischauer: p'i, Yale: phi)

• Name (hangeul): 저, 그, 저쪽()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

彼 (pinyin bǐ (bi3), Wade-Giles pi³)

Compounds

• 彼此
• 顧此失彼

Pronoun

1. other; that; those

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Vietnamese

Han character

彼 (bỉ, bể, bở)