幣

See also: 币

Translingual

Han character

幣 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火大中月 (FKLB), four-corner 9822₇, composition ⿱敝巾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 337, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9088
• Dae Jaweon: page 644, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 753, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5E63

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Chinese

trad.		幣
simp.		币*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蔽	*peds
鄨	*peds, *ped
鷩	*peds, *ped
彆	*peds, *peːd
潎	*pʰeds, *pʰed
斃	*beds, *bed
敝	*beds, *bed
幣	*beds
弊	*beds
鱉	*ped
虌	*ped
憋	*ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳	*bed, *pʰeːd
撇	*pʰeːd
撆	*pʰeːd
暼	*pʰeːd
蹩	*beːd
襒	*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *beds) : phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 巾 (“towel”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 幣

1. money; coins; currency
2. ^† silk
3. ^† wealth; belongings
4. ^† to give as a gift; to present

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Japanese

Kanji

幣

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: べ (be)
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• Kun: ぬさ (nusa, 幣); みてぐら (mitegura, 幣); ぜに (zeni, 幣); たから (takara)

Compounds

• 貨幣(かへい) (kahei): currency
• 紙幣(しへい) (shihei): paper money, bill, note

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Korean

Hanja

幣 • (pye) (hangeul 폐, McCune–Reischauer p'ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 幣 (tệ, giẻ)

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