Chinese

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to respect; wear (belt, etc.)
clothes; dress; garment
clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)
 
simp. and trad.
(佩服)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (3) (3)
Final () (42) (4)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter bwojH bjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buʌiH/ /bɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/buoiH/ /biuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/buɒiH/ /biuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bwəjH/ /buwk̚/
Li
Rong
/buᴀiH/ /biuk̚/
Wang
Li
/buɒiH/ /bĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱuɑ̆iH/ /bʱi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bèi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bui6 fuk6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 2/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
pèi
Middle
Chinese
‹ bwojH › ‹ bjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˁək-s/ /*[b]ək/
English to wear at girdle, pendants garment; wear (v.)

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9651 3366
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bɯːs/ /*bɯɡ/

Verb

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佩服

  1. to admire; to look up to
  2. (literary) to wear (a badge or other accessories on one's chest, arms or shoulders)
  3. (literary) to keep firmly in mind; to remember well
  4. (literary) to abide by; to follow; to comply with

Synonyms

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  • (to admire):
  • (to wear): 佩戴 (pèidài)
  • (to keep firmly in the mind):
  • (to abide by):

Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (佩服):
  • Korean: 패복(佩服) (paebok)

See also

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