貝

See also 贝, 目, 見, and 頁

Translingual

Stroke order

simpl.		贝
trad.		貝

Han character

貝 (radical 154 貝+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月山金 (BUC), four-corner 6080₀)

1. sea shell
2. money, currency (shell-money)

Descendants

• 贝

References

• KangXi: page 1204, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36656
• Dae Jaweon: page 1665, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3622, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8C9D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

貝 (simplified 贝, Yale bui3)

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Hakka

Hanzi

貝 (POJ pùi, -pì, Guangdong pui⁵; pi⁵, pwi⁵ [Meixian], pui⁵, pi⁵ [Kwangtung, Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim bi4, bui4)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

貝 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: はい (hai) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: はい (hai) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’yōon: ばい (bai) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: かい (kai)

Compounds

• 一枚貝 (いちまいがい, ichimaigai): univalve
• 二枚貝 (にまいがい, nimaigai): bivalve
• 帆立貝 (ほたてがい, hotategai, “scallop”)

Noun

貝 (hiragana かい, romaji kai)

1. a shellfish

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Korean

Hanja

貝
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 패 (revised: pae, McCune-Reischauer: p'ae, Yale: phay)

• Name (hangeul): 조개 (revised: jogae)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

貝 (simplified 贝, pinyin bèi (bei4), Wade-Giles pei⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

貝 (*bɑ̀i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

貝 (bối, buổi, bói, búi, với, mấy, mới, vuối)