幣

See also 币

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 敝 + semantic 巾 (“towel”)

Han character

幣 (radical 50 巾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火大中月 (FKLB), four-corner 9822₇)

1. currency, coins, legal tender

References

• KangXi: page 337, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9088
• Dae Jaweon: page 644, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 753, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5E63

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Cantonese

Hanzi

幣 (simplified 币, Yale bai6)

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Japanese

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji

幣 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: へい (hei)
• Kun: ぬさ (nusa), たから (takara), ぜに (zeni)

Compounds

• 貨幣 (かへい, kahei, “currency”)
• 紙幣 (しへい, shihei, “paper money, bill, note”)

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Korean

Hanja

幣 (hangeul 폐, revised pye, McCune-Reischauer p'ye)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

幣 (simplified 币, pinyin bì (bi4), chàn (chan4), Wade-Giles pi⁴, ch'an⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

幣 (tệ, giẻ)