啤

啤	U+5564, 啤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5564

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[U+5563]

CJK Unified Ideographs

啥 →
[U+5565]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

啤 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口竹田十 (RHWJ) or 口竹竹十 (RHHJ), four-corner 6604₀, composition ⿰口卑)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 196, character 26
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3878
Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 642, character 9
Unihan data for U+5564

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth (phonetic)”) + phonetic 卑.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		啤

Borrowed from English beer. First attested in 1828, in Robert Morrison's Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pí (pi²)
(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): be¹
(Taishan, Wiktionary): pie²
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): bi¹
Jin (Wiktionary): pi¹
Min Dong (BUC): bì
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): pî
(Teochew, Peng'im): bi⁵
Wu (Wiktionary): bi (T3)

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)⁺
  - Jyutping: be¹
  - Yale: bē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: be¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bé¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛː⁵⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: pie²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiɛ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: bi¹
  - Sinological IPA: /pi⁴⁴/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: pi¹
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /pʰxi¹¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: bì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pî
  - Tâi-lô: pî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pi²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pi²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pi²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bi⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pî
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: bi (T3)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /b̥i²³/

Definitions

啤

beer
(Hong Kong Cantonese) to drink beer
今晚去邊度啤一啤啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
今晚去边度啤一啤啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]
gam¹ maan^5-1 heoi³ bin¹ dou⁶ be¹ jat¹ be¹ aa³? [Jyutping]
Where are we going to drink beer tonight?
你升職咁開心，點可以唔啤啤佢啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
你升职咁开心，点可以唔啤啤佢啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]
nei⁵ sing¹ zik¹ gam³ hoi¹ sam¹, dim² ho² ji⁵ m⁴ be¹ be¹ keoi⁵ aa³? [Jyutping]
In this happy occasion of your promotion, how could we not drink beer?

Compounds

啤酒 (píjiǔ)
生啤 (shēngpí)

扎啤 (zhāpí)
乾啤／干啤

鮮啤／鲜啤

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		啤
alternative forms		𠵿𠯔 pair

Borrowed from English pair.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): pe¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: pe¹
  - Yale: pē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pe¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: pé¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛː⁵⁵/

Definitions

啤 (Cantonese)

pair
Classifier for pairs of objects.
Short for 啤牌 (“playing cards”). (Classifier: 副 c)
玩啤 [Cantonese] ― waan² pe¹ [Jyutping] ― to play cards

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 撲克牌 (“playing card”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		撲克牌, 撲克
Mandarin	Beijing	撲克兒, 撲克兒牌
	Taiwan	撲克牌
	Yantai (Muping)	撲克兒
	Jinan	撲克牌, 撲克
	Luoyang	撲克
	Yinchuan	撲克
	Wuhan	撲克牌, 撲克
	Guiyang	撲克
	Liuzhou	煙洗啤
	Xuzhou	爬子牌
	Yangzhou	撲克牌
	Nanjing	撲克
Cantonese	Guangzhou	啤牌, 啤, 撲克牌
	Hong Kong	啤牌, 啤
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	啤牌
	Macau	啤牌
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	啤牌
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	啤牌
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	啤牌
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	啤牌
	Foshan	啤牌
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	啤牌
	Foshan (Shunde)	啤牌
	Foshan (Sanshui)	啤牌
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	啤牌
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	啤牌
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	啤牌
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	啤牌
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	啤牌, 博架
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	紙牌
	Taishan	紙牌, 啤牌
	Kaiping (Chikan)	紙牌
	Enping (Niujiang)	紙牌, 啤牌
	Heshan (Yayao)	衣士
	Dongguan	啤牌, 啤
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	紙牌
	Shaoguan	啤牌
	Yunfu	啤牌, 啤
	Yangjiang	啤牌
	Xinyi	啤牌
	Lianjiang	啤
	Nanning	啤
	Wuzhou	啤
	Yulin	啤
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	啤
Gan	Lichuan	撲克
Hakka	Meixian	撲克牌, 萬曆, 啤牌
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	紙牌
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	紙牌
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	紙牌
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	啤仔
	Conghua (Lütian)	紙牌
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	特濟邦
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	特濟邦
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	特濟邦
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	特濟邦
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	特濟邦
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	特濟邦
Huizhou	Jixi	老開, 撲克
Jin	Taiyuan	撲克兒
Min Nan	Xiamen	撲克
	Quanzhou	撲克
	Zhangzhou	撲克
	Penang (Hokkien)	牌
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	撲克
	Shantou	萬六, 撲克牌
	Jieyang	滿九, 滿九牌, 萬六, 萬六牌, 撲克, 撲克牌
	Singapore (Teochew)	滿九
	Leizhou	啤
	Haikou	啤
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	撲克, 啤
Wu	Shanghai	撲克牌
	Shanghai (Chongming)	派司牌
	Danyang	杜老克
	Hangzhou	撲克牌兒
	Ningbo	派司牌, 撲克, 撲克牌, 杜勒克, 杜勒克牌, 老K牌
	Jinhua	老凱, 撲克

Usage notes

The classifier 啤 (pe1, “pair”) is not used for objects that naturally come in pairs (e.g. eyes, shoes, socks, gloves, chopsticks, etc.), for which 對／对 (deoi3) is used instead.

Compounds

啤牌

話事啤／话事啤

賭啤／赌啤

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		啤
alternative forms		睥

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): be¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: be¹
  - Yale: bē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: be¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bé¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛː⁵⁵/

Definitions

啤 (Cantonese)

to stare; to glare

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.		啤

Borrowed from English press.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): be¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: be¹
  - Yale: bē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: be¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bé¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛː⁵⁵/

Definitions

啤 (Cantonese)

to weld; to solder; to press a mould or seal an edge with a machine

Compounds

啤機／啤机 (píjī)

Etymology 5

simp. and trad.		啤

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): be¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: be¹
  - Yale: bē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: be¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bé¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛː⁵⁵/

Definitions

啤

(chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription.

Compounds

啤令
啤啤熊
啤梨 (pílí)

士啤
士啤呔

士多啤梨 (shìduōpílí)
黑啤梨

Etymology 6

simp. and trad.		啤

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bēi (bei¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄅㄟ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bēi
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bei
  - Wade–Giles: pei¹
  - Yale: bēi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
  - Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

啤

^† larynx disorder that causes one to be unable to speak loudly
Alternative form of 諀 (bǐ).

Japanese

Kanji

啤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ひ (hi)
Kan-on: ひ (hi)

Vietnamese

Han character

啤: Hán Nôm readings: bi, bì

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Nom Foundation

啤

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Etymology 2

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Etymology 3

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Etymology 4

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Etymology 5

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Etymology 6

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Japanese

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Vietnamese

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