鄙

Translingual

Han character

鄙 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口田弓中 (RWNL), four-corner 6762₇, composition ⿰啚阝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1276, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39597
• Dae Jaweon: page 1776, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3792, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9119

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Chinese

trad.		鄙
simp. #		鄙
alternative forms		啚

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鄙	*prɯʔ
啚	*prɯʔ, *daː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *prɯʔ) : phonetic 啚 (OC *prɯʔ, *daː) + 邑.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鄙

1. countrified
2. mean; ignoble
3. (humble) my
4. (literary) to despise; to hold in contempt
5. (literary) remote place; march

   既而大叔命西鄙、北鄙貳於己。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   既而大叔命西鄙、北鄙贰于己。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg

   Jì'ér tàishú mìng xī bǐ, bò bǐ èr yú jǐ. [Pinyin (Taiwanese Mandarin)]

   Shorty thereafter, the Senior Younger Brother commanded the western and northern marches to switch their allegiance to him.

Synonyms

• (despise): 蔑 (miè), 藐 (miǎo)

Antonyms

• (despise): 敬 (jìng), 尊 (zūn), 崇 (chóng)

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Japanese

Kanji

鄙

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: ひな (hina, 鄙); ひなぶ (hinabu, 鄙ぶ); ひなびる (hinabiru, 鄙びる); さげすむ (sagesumu, 鄙む); いやしい (iyashii, 鄙しい); かたなむ (katanamu, 鄙む); とひと (tohito)

Compounds

• (countrified): 辺鄙

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鄙
とひと Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Originally a compound of 外 (to, “outside”) +‎ 人 (hito, “person”). The kanji used is an example of jukujikun.

Noun

鄙(とひと) • (tohito) 

1. (archaic, derogatory) a countrified or rustic person: a hick, a bumpkin

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Korean

Hanja

鄙 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

1. mean
2. low

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鄙 (bỉ, bẽ)

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