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鄙

鄙 U+9119, 鄙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9119
← 鄘
[U+9118] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鄚 →
[U+911A]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

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

References edit

  • 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

Chinese edit

trad. 鄙
simp. # 鄙
2nd round simp. 𨚍
alternative forms 啚

Glyph origin edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 鄙
Mandarin Beijing /pi²¹⁴/
Harbin /pi⁵³/
Tianjin /pi¹³/
Jinan /pi²¹/
Qingdao /pi⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /pi³¹²/
Xi'an /pʰi⁵³/
Xining /pʰji⁵³/
Yinchuan /pi⁵³/
/pi¹³/
Lanzhou /pi⁴⁴²/
/pʰi⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /pi⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰi⁴²/
Chengdu /pʰi⁵³/
Guiyang /pʰi⁴²/
Kunming /pʰi⁵³/
Nanjing /pi²¹²/
Hefei /pz̩²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /pi⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pʰi⁵³/
Hohhot /pi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /pi³⁵/
Suzhou /pi⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pi⁵³/
Wenzhou /pei⁴²/
Hui Shexian /pʰi³⁵/
Tunxi /pʰi³¹/
Xiang Changsha /pʰi⁴¹/
Xiangtan /pʰi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /pʰi³¹/
Taoyuan /pʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰei³⁵/
Nanning /pʰi³⁵/
Hong Kong /pʰei³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pʰi⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pʰi³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pi²¹/
/pʰi²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /pʰi⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /fi³¹/
Rime
Character 鄙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 方美切
Baxter pijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pjiX/
Li
Rong 		/pjiX/
Wang
Li 		/piX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/piX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bei2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鄙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pijX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*prəʔ/
English border town

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 鄙
Reading # 1/1
No. 550
Phonetic
component 		啚
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		鄙
Old
Chinese 		/*prɯʔ/

Definitions edit

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. 4th 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 edit

  • (despise): 蔑 (miè), 藐 (miǎo)

Antonyms edit

  • (antonym(s) of "despise"): 敬 (jìng), 尊 (zūn), 崇 (chóng)

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

鄙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
鄙
とひと
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

鄙(とひと) • (tohito) 

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

Korean edit

Hanja edit

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

  1. mean
  2. low

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

鄙: Hán Nôm readings: bỉ, bẽ

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