卑

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

Shinjitai	卑
Simplified	卑
Traditional	卑

Alternative forms

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

Han character

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

1. low
2. humble
3. mean, ignoble
4. abase, contemn, despise

Derived characters

• 啤

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		卑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卑
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bēi (bei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei¹
• Min Nan (POJ): pi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: pei¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
    • IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei¹
    • Yale: bēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pei̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pi
    • Tâi-lô: pi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: py
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pi³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 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/

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• Middle Chinese: /piᴇ/▼

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
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*pe/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pe/

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

卑

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Compounds

• 不亢不卑
• 不卑不亢 (bùbēibùkàng)
• 不抗不卑
• 位卑言高
• 克順克卑／克顺克卑
• 前倨後卑／前倨后卑
• 卑下 (bēixià)
• 卑人
• 卑以自牧
• 卑位
• 卑侮
• 卑俗
• 卑劣 (bēiliè)
• 卑劣手段
• 卑卑
• 卑南文化
• 卑南族 (bēinánzú)
• 卑南鄉／卑南乡
• 卑宮／卑宫
• 卑宮菲食／卑宫菲食
• 卑微 (bēiwēi)
• 卑怯 (bēiqiè)

• 卑末
• 卑梁之釁／卑梁之衅
• 卑汙／卑污
• 卑溼／卑湿
• 卑無高論／卑无高论
• 卑爾根／卑尔根
• 卑田院
• 卑禮厚幣／卑礼厚币
• 卑職／卑职
• 卑薄
• 卑見／卑见
• 卑親屬／卑亲属
• 卑論／卑论
• 卑謹／卑谨
• 卑讓／卑让
• 卑賤／卑贱 (bēijiàn)
• 卑身
• 卑躬屈節／卑躬屈节
• 卑躬屈膝
• 卑辭厚禮／卑辞厚礼
• 卑鄙 (bēibǐ)
• 卑鄙無恥／卑鄙无耻

• 卑鄙齷齪／卑鄙龌龊
• 卑金屬／卑金属
• 卑陋
• 卑陋齷齪／卑陋龌龊
• 卑高
• 天高聽卑／天高听卑
• 官卑祿薄／官卑禄薄
• 官卑職小／官卑职小
• 尊卑
• 尊古卑今
• 尊己卑人
• 歎老嗟卑／叹老嗟卑
• 男尊女卑 (nánzūnnǚbēi)
• 登高自卑
• 自卑 (zìbēi)
• 自卑感 (zìbēigǎn)
• 菲食卑宮／菲食卑宫
• 謙卑／谦卑 (qiānbēi)
• 謙卑自牧／谦卑自牧
• 辭尊居卑／辞尊居卑
• 鮮卑／鲜卑 (Xiānbēi)

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Japanese

Kanji

卑

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

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Readings

• Goon: ひ (hi)
• Kan’on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: ひくい (hikui), いやしい (iyashii), いやしめる (iyashimeru)

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Korean

Hanja

卑 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卑 (te, bấy, ti)

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