弊

Translingual

Han character

弊 (Kangxi radical 55, 廾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火大廿 (FKT), four-corner 9844₄, composition ⿱敝廾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 354, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9644
• Dae Jaweon: page 670, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 518, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5F0A

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Chinese

trad.		弊
simp. #		弊
alternative forms		獘／毙 ⿱比廾 second round simplified

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 廾.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pē / pī / pè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴
    • Yale: bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Palladius: би (bi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bai⁶
    • Yale: baih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pē
    • Tâi-lô: pē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pe
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pe⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pe²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pe³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pī
    • Tâi-lô: pī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pè
    • Tâi-lô: pè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pex
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /pe²¹/

Note:

• pè - vernacular (俗);
• piah - unknown dialect.

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*beds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	弊
Reading #	1/1
No.	635
Phonetic component	敝
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	獘
Old Chinese	/*beds/
Notes	下原作大，注俗作此

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 弊

1. fraud; harm; malpractice; deceit
2. drawback; defect
3. (Cantonese) used to indicate a realisation that something is wrong: oh no; oh crap

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Japanese

Kanji

弊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. abuse

Readings

• Go-on: べ (be)
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• Kun: ついえる (tsuieru, 弊える); つかれる (tsukareru, 弊れる); くるしむ (kurushimu); やぶれる (yabureru, 弊れる)

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Korean

Hanja

弊 • (pye) (hangeul 폐, revised pye, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, Yale phyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 弊 (tệ, giẻ)

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