敝

敝

敝 U+655D, 敝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-655D ← 敜 [U+655C] CJK Unified Ideographs 敞 → [U+655E]

Translingual

Han character

敝 (radical 66, 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火月人大 (FBOK), four-corner 9824₀, composition ⿰㡀攵)

1. break, destroy
2. broken, tattered

Derived terms

• 弊, 斃, 蔽, 幣, 蹩, 彆, 鐅, 鼈, 嫳, 撆, 潎, 獘, 鄨, 鷩, 瞥

References

• KangXi: page 472, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13245
• Dae Jaweon: page 824, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1461, character 4
• Unihan data for U+655D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		敝

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, OC *beds, *bed) : phonetic 㡀 + semantic 攴.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: pih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bai⁶
    • Yale: baih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯²²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 敝
Mandarin	Beijing	/pi⁵¹/
	Harbin	/pi⁵³/
	Tianjin	/pi⁵³/
	Jinan	/pi²¹/
	Qingdao	/pi⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/pi³¹²/
	Xi'an	/pi⁴⁴/
	Xining	/pji²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/pi¹³/
	Lanzhou	/pi¹³/
	Ürümqi	/pi²¹³/
	Wuhan	/pi³⁵/
	Chengdu	/pi¹³/
	Guiyang	/pi⁴²/
	Kunming	/pi²¹²/
	Nanjing	/pi⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/pz̩⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pi⁴⁵/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/pi⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/bi²³/
	Suzhou	/bi³¹/
	Hangzhou	/bi¹³/
	Wenzhou	/bei²²/
Hui	Shexian	/pi³²⁴/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/pei⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/pəi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/pʰi²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/pi⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/pi⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pɐi²²/
	Nanning	/pi²²/
	Hong Kong	/pɐi²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pe²²/ /pe²¹/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/pɛi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pi⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pi³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ʔbi³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /biᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	敝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	毗祭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/bjæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biajH/
Li Rong	/biɛiH/
Wang Li	/bĭɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]e[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beds/, /*bed/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bjiejH ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]e[t]-s/
English	destroy; worn out
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	敝	敝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	633	645
Phonetic component	敝	敝
Rime group	祭	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	獘	獘
Old Chinese	/*beds/	/*bed/

Definitions

敝

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Compounds

凋敝 (diāobì) 千金敝帚 如棄敝屣／如弃敝屣 季子裘敝 彫敝 悉索敝賦／悉索敝赋 振衰起敝 敝上 敝人 (bìrén) 敝友 敝國／敝国 敝地 敝塾

敝屣 敝屣尊榮／敝屣尊荣 敝屣王侯 敝屣自珍 敝屣視之／敝屣视之 敝帚千金 敝帚自珍 敝房 敝眷 敝笱 敝膝 敝處／敝处 敝號／敝号

敝蹝 敝鬼 棄若敝屣／弃若敝屣 民生凋敝 民生彫敝 疲敝 罷敝／罢敝 脣焦舌敝／唇焦舌敝 舌敝脣焦／舌敝唇焦 蠱敝／蛊敝 視如敝屣／视如敝屣 靡敝

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Japanese

Kanji

敝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: べ (be)
• Kan-on: へい (hei)
• Kun: やぶれる (yabureru)

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Korean

Hanja

敝 (eum 폐 (pye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

敝: Hán Nôm readings: tệ

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