鄙吝

Chinese

		rustic; low; base rustic; low; base; mean	stingy
trad. (鄙吝)		鄙	吝
simp. #(鄙吝)		鄙	吝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐlìn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˇ ㄌㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei² leon⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phí-līn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǐlìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˇ ㄌㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǐlìn
    • Wade–Giles: pi³-lin⁴
    • Yale: bǐ-lìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biilinn
    • Palladius: билинь (bilinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹⁴⁻²¹ lin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pei² leon⁶
    • Yale: péi leuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei² loen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi² lên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯³⁵ lɵn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phí-līn
    • Tâi-lô: phí-līn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phylin
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin³³/

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• Middle Chinese: pijX linH

Rime
Character	鄙	吝
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	方美切	良刃切
Baxter	pijX	linH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiɪX/	/liɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiX/	/linH/
Shao Rongfen	/piɪX/	/ljenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiX/	/linH/
Li Rong	/pjiX/	/liĕnH/
Wang Li	/piX/	/lĭĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/piX/	/li̯ĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐ	lìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei2	lan6

Adjective

鄙吝

1. (literary) distasteful; vulgar; low
2. (literary) stingy; miserly

Synonyms

• (distasteful):

• 低下 (dīxià)
• 低俗 (dīsú)
• 低級／低级 (dījí)
• 俗氣／俗气 (súqì)
• 俗骨 (zuk⁶ gwat¹) (Cantonese)
• 傖俗／伧俗 (cāngsú) (formal)
• 卑俗 (bēisú)
• 庸俗 (yōngsú)
• 鄙俗 (bǐsú)

 

• (stingy):

• 吝嗇／吝啬 (lìnsè)
• 小氣／小气 (xiǎoqì)
• 慳吝／悭吝 (qiānlìn) (literary)
• 摳／抠 (kōu)
• 摳門／抠门 (kōumén)
• 窮相／穷相 (qióngxiàng) (literary or regional)

 

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "distasteful"):

• 優美／优美 (yōuměi) (of music, scenery)
• 典雅 (diǎnyǎ)
• 古雅 (gǔyǎ)
• 嫻／娴 (xián) (literary, or in compounds)
• 嫻靜／娴静 (xiánjìng)
• 幽美 (yōuměi) (literary, of an environment)
• 彬 (bīn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 彬彬 (bīnbīn) (literary)
• 文雅 (wényǎ)
• 文靜／文静 (wénjìng)
• 斯文 (sīwén)
• 斯文胎胎 (si¹ wen² tai¹ tai¹) (Sichuanese)
• 斯斯文文 (sīsīwénwén)
• 柔美 (róuměi) (of music, scenery)
• 酥巧 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 雅相 (ia³ sian⁴) (Xiang)
• 雅緻／雅致 (yǎzhì)
• 高尚 (gāoshàng)
• 高雅 (gāoyǎ)