敝

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 㡀 + semantic 攴

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

• 弊, 斃, 蔽, 幣, 蹩, 彆, 鐅, 鼈, 嫳, 撆, 潎, 獘, 鄨, 鷩, 瞥

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		敝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bai⁶
    • Yale: baih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (敝, reconstructed)
Character (敝), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 祭 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 毗祭切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/biᴇiH/	/bʱi̯ɛiH/	/biɛiH/	/biɛiH/	/biajH/	/bĭɛiH/	/bjæiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (敝, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
敝								bì								‹ bjiejH ›								/*[b]e[t]-s/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
敝					633					敝					祭					2					獘					/*beds/
敝					645					敝					月					2					獘					/*bed/

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Japanese

Kanji

敝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: へい (hei)
• Kun: やぶれる (yabureru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

敝 (tệ)

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