卑

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卑 U+5351, 卑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5351
← 卐
[U+5350] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卒 →
[U+5352]

卑 U+FA35, 卑
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA35
← 勤
[U+FA34] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 喝 →
[U+FA36]

卑 U+2F82D, 卑
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F82D
← 卉
[U+2F82C] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 博 →
[U+2F82E]

Translingual[edit]

Japanese 卑
Simplified 卑
Traditional 卑

Alternative forms[edit]

Note that in Japanese shinjitai, the top left handed stroke ㇓ is written as two separate strokes.

Han character[edit]

卑 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+6 in Chinese, 十+7 in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 竹竹十 (HHJ), four-corner 26400, composition ⿱⿻白丿十(GHTK) or ⿱丿𤰞(JV))

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 156, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2738
  • Dae Jaweon: page 356, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 63, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5351

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 卑

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 卑
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (卑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
捭 *preːʔ
牌 *breː, *breː
郫 *breː, *bre, *be
蠯 *breː, *be, *breːŋʔ
猈 *breːʔ, *breː
稗 *breːs
粺 *breːs
𥱼 *breː
豍 *peː
箄 *peː, *pe, *peʔ
錍 *pʰeː, *pe
睥 *pʰeːs
渒 *pʰeːs, *pe
鼙 *beː
鞞 *beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ
椑 *beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ
崥 *beː, *peʔ
髀 *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ
卑 *pe
鵯 *pe, *pʰiɡ
裨 *pe, *be
痺 *pe
碑 *pre
婢 *peʔ, *beʔ
諀 *pʰeʔ
脾 *be
埤 *be
陴 *be
蜱 *be, *mbew
焷 *be
螷 *be, *breːŋʔ
庳 *beʔ
琕 *biːŋ
萆 *beɡ, *slɯʔ
綼 *biɡ, *peːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 甲 (“fan”) + 𠂇 (“hand”) - a man holding a fan, indicating that he is a servant.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 卑
Mandarin Beijing /pei⁵⁵/
Harbin /pei⁴⁴/
Tianjin /pei²¹/
Jinan /pei²¹³/
Qingdao /pe⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰi⁵³/
Xi'an /pi²¹/
Xining /pji⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pei⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /pi³¹/
Ürümqi /pei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /pei⁵⁵/
Chengdu /pei⁵⁵/
Guiyang /pei⁵⁵/
Kunming /pei⁴⁴/
Nanjing /pəi³¹/
Hefei /pe²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /pei¹¹/
Pingyao /pei¹³/
Hohhot /pei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /pe⁵³/
Suzhou /pe̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /pei³³/
Wenzhou /pai³³/
Hui Shexian /pe³¹/
Tunxi /pe¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pei³³/
Xiangtan /pəi³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /pi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /pei⁵³/
Nanning /pi⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pei⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pi⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pi⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pi⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pui³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbɔi²³/
Rime
Character 卑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 府移切
Baxter pjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/piᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/piɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/piə̆/
Li
Rong 		/pie/
Wang
Li 		/pǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bei1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 卑 卑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bēi bēi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjie › ‹ pjie ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pe/ /*pe/
English low, humble 鮮卑 *s[a]r.pe Xiānbēi

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 卑
Reading # 1/1
No. 368
Phonetic
component 		卑
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		卑
Old
Chinese 		/*pe/

Definitions[edit]

卑

  1. low; inferior
  2. humble

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai 卑
Kyūjitai
[1]
卑
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or
卑+&#xFE00;?
卑󠄀
卑+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
卑󠄃
卑+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji[edit]

卑

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 卑)

  1. lowly, base, vulgar; vile

Readings[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ “卑”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎[1] (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese 卑 (MC pjie). Recorded as Middle Korean 비 (pi) (Yale: pi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

卑 (eumhun 낮을 비 (najeul bi))

  1. Hanja form? of 비 (“low; inferior”).

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

卑: Hán Nôm readings: te, bấy, ti

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