疲

See also: 渡

Translingual

Han character

疲 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大木竹水 (KDHE), four-corner 0014₇, composition ⿸疒皮)

See also

• 波

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 770, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22084
• Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2669, character 12
• Unihan data for U+75B2

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		疲

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
陂	*pral, *prals
詖	*pral, *prals
彼	*pralʔ
柀	*pralʔ
佊	*pralʔ, *prals
貱	*prals
跛	*prals, *paːlʔ
披	*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹	*pʰral
帔	*pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍	*pʰral
耚	*pʰral
狓	*pʰral
翍	*pʰral
旇	*pʰral, *brals
秛	*pʰral, *pʰrals
紴	*pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮	*bral
疲	*bral
被	*bralʔ, *brals
髲	*brals
鞁	*brals
骳	*mbralʔ
波	*paːl
碆	*paːl, *baːl
菠	*paːl
簸	*paːlʔ, *paːls
駊	*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗	*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡	*pʰaːl
玻	*pʰaːl
破	*pʰaːls
婆	*baːl
蔢	*baːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bral) : semantic 疒 (“sick”) + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral) – sick and tired.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pí (pi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pí
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pí
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi²
    • Yale: pí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
    • Palladius: пи (pi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pei⁴
    • Yale: pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phî
    • Tâi-lô: phî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰi¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰi²³/

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• Middle Chinese: bje

Rime
Character	疲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符羈切
Baxter	bje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/biɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bjiə̆/
Li Rong	/bje/
Wang Li	/bǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b](r)aj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bral/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	疲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pí
Middle Chinese	‹ bje ›
Old Chinese	/*[b](r)aj/
English	weary, exhausted
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	疲
Reading #	1/1
No.	9712
Phonetic component	皮
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	皮
Old Chinese	/*bral/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 疲

1. weary; tired; exhausted
2. ^† weak

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Japanese

Kanji

疲

(Jōyō kanji)

1. fatigue
2. exhaustion
3. tiredness
4. weariness

Readings

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kun: つかれる (tsukareru, 疲れる, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

疲 • (pi) (hangeul 피, revised pi, McCune–Reischauer p'i, Yale phi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

疲 (bì, mệt)

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