貝

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

simplified	贝
traditional	貝

[edit] Han character

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

1. sea shell
2. money, currency

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

貝 (simplified 贝, Yale bui3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

貝 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: ばい (bai), はい (hai)
• Kun: かい (kai)

[edit] 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’”)

[edit] Noun

貝 (hiragana かい, romaji kai)

1. a shellfish

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

貝
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 조개 (revised: jogae)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

貝 (*bɑ̀i)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

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