U+5564, 啤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5564

[U+5563]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5565]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 30, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口竹田十 (RHWJ) or 口竹竹十 (RHHJ), four-corner 66040, composition )

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 196, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3878
  • Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 642, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5564

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) : semantic (mouth (phonetic)) + phonetic .

Etymology 1

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simp. and trad.

Borrowed from English beer. First attested in 1828, in Robert Morrison's Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect.

Pronunciation

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  1. beer (Used in compounds.)
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to drink beer
    今晚邊度 [Cantonese, trad.]
    今晚边度 [Cantonese, simp.]
    gam1 maan5-1 heoi3 bin1 dou6 be1 jat1 be1 aa3? [Jyutping]
    Where are we going to drink beer tonight?
    升職開心可以 [Cantonese, trad.]
    升职开心可以 [Cantonese, simp.]
    nei5 sing1 zik1 gam3 hoi1 sam1, dim2 ho2 ji5 m4 be1 be1 keoi5 aa3? [Jyutping]
    In this happy occasion of your promotion, how could we not drink beer?

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Etymology 2

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𠵿
𠯔
pair

Borrowed from English pair.

From 1950 at the earliest. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “can we improve this date?”)

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(Cantonese)

  1. pair
  2. Classifier for pairs of objects.
  3. Short for 啤牌.
    1. playing card (Classifier: c;  c;  c;  c)
    2. (by extension) card game
      [Cantonese]  ―  waan2 pe1 [Jyutping]  ―  to play cards
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The classifier (pe1, “pair”) is not used for objects that naturally come in pairs (e.g. eyes, shoes, socks, gloves, chopsticks, etc.), for which (deoi3) is used instead.

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Etymology 3

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms

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(Cantonese)

  1. to stare; to glare
    [Cantonese]  ―  nou6 be1 [Jyutping]  ―  to stare someone angrily

Etymology 4

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simp. and trad.

Borrowed from English press.

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(Cantonese)

  1. to weld; to solder; to press a mould or seal an edge with a machine
  2. to apply pressure to cause something to flow through

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Etymology 5

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simp. and trad.

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  1. (chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription.

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Etymology 6

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simp. and trad.

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  1. larynx disorder that causes one to be unable to speak loudly
  2. Alternative form of ()

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • Go-on: (hi)
  • Kan-on: (hi)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: bi,

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