倍

Translingual

Han character

倍 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人卜廿口 (OYTR), four-corner 2026₁, composition ⿰亻咅)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 760
• Dae Jaweon: page 228, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 183, character 4
• Unihan data for U+500D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		倍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倍
Small seal script s05828 Transcribed ancient scripts L15317
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (咅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蓓	*bɯːʔ, *bɯːʔ
倍	*bɯːʔ
菩	*bɯːʔ, *bɯʔ, *bɯː, *bɯːɡ
掊	*bruː, *poːʔ, *bɯ, *bɯ
剖	*pʰoːʔ, *pʰoʔ
婄	*pʰɯʔ, *bɯʔ, *bɯː
踣	*pʰɯs, *bɯːɡ
箁	*bɯ
咅	*pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs
部	*boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ
培	*boːʔ, *bɯː
犃	*boːʔ
瓿	*boːʔ, *bɯ, *bo
殕	*pɯʔ, *pʰoʔ, *qɯːɡ
醅	*pʰɯ, *pʰɯː
棓	*bɯ, *broːŋʔ, *bɯː
涪	*bɯ
賠	*bɯː
陪	*bɯː
毰	*bɯː
焙	*bɯːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯːʔ) : semantic 人 + phonetic 咅 (OC *pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 倍

1. to double
2. Classifier for the number of times a value is multiplied: times; -fold

   一百倍  ―  yībǎi bèi  ―  hundredfold; one hundred times

3. exceptionally; especially
4. (Mandarin, colloquial) very; extremely

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

倍

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ばい (bai, Jōyō)、べ (be)
• Kan-on: はい (hai)
• Kun: そむく (somuku, 倍く)、ます (masu, 倍す)

Compounds

• 倍音
• 倍加
• 倍数
• 倍率
• 人一倍
• 一倍
• 一粒万倍
• 五倍子
• 倍増
• 倍大
• 倍旧
• 倍精度
• 倍額
• 勇気百倍
• 安倍川餅
• 数倍
• 逓倍

 

Noun

倍(ばい) • (bai) 

1. twice, double, two times

   田(た)中(なか)さんの家(いえ)は私(わたし)の家(いえ)の倍(ばい)の大(おお)きさだ。

   Tanaka-san no ie wa watashi no ie no bai no ōkisa da.

   Tanaka's house is twice the size of mine.

   倍(ばい)にする

   bai ni suru

   to double

Antonyms

• 半(はん) (han, “half”)

Suffix

倍(ばい) • (-bai) 

1. times, -fold

   この飛行機(ひこうき)はあの飛行機(ひこうき)よりも ３(さん)倍(ばい)速(はや)い。

   Kono hikōki wa ano hikōki yori mo san-bai hayai.

   This plane is a whole three times faster than that plane.

   ４(よん) の ５(ご)倍(ばい)

   yon no go-bai

   4 times 5

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Korean

Hanja

倍 • (bae, pae) (hangeul 배, 패, revised bae, pae, McCune–Reischauer pae, p'ae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倍: Hán Nôm readings: bội, bạu, bậu, bụa, buạ, vội

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