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U+5A62, 婢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A62

[U+5A61]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5A63]

U+FA80, 婢
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA80
奔
[U+FA7F]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+FA81]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 38, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女竹田十 (VHWJ), four-corner 46440, composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6428
  • Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1059, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5A62

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *peʔ, *beʔ) : semantic + phonetic (OC *pe). May also be considered a ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : semantic (woman) + semantic (low, inferior), especially in light of its etymology.

Etymology

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Endoactive of (bēi, low, inferior) (i.e., what is low, what is inferior). Possible allofam of (, favorite person, favorite concubine).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie 便
Baxter bjieX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/biᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun
/biɛX/
Shao
Rongfen
/bjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/biə̆X/
Li
Rong
/bieX/
Wang
Li
/bǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bei6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjieX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]eʔ/
English female slave or servant

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 378 394
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
𢔌
Old
Chinese
/*peʔ/ /*beʔ/

Definitions

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  1. female slave
  2. (humble) Self-designation used by females in ancient China: your servant

Coordinate terms

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  • (slave): (male) ()

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. maidservant
  2. female slave

Readings

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  • Go-on: (bi)
  • Kan-on: (hi)
  • Kun: はしため (hashitame, )

Compounds

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Korean

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Hanja

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(bi) (hangeul , revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings:

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