See also:
U+5E63, 幣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E63

[U+5E62]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5E64]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

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

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 337, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9088
  • Dae Jaweon: page 644, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 753, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5E63

Chinese edit

trad.
simp. *

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *beds): phonetic (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic (towel).

Etymology edit

Wang (1982) relates this to (OC *braːɡ, “silk”).

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter bjiejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/biᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/biɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/bjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/biajH/
Li
Rong
/biɛiH/
Wang
Li
/bĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bai6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjiejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]e[t]-s/
English offering of silk

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
No. 634
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*beds/

Definitions edit

  1. money; coin; currency
    Synonym:
      ―  jīn  ―  gold coin
      ―  zhǐ  ―  banknote
      ―  gǎng  ―  Hong Kong dollar
  2. silk (as a sacrificial offering or gift)
  3. wealth; belongings
  4. to give as a gift; to present

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

幣󠄁
+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
 
幣󠄃
+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji edit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. currency

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
ぬさ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(ぬさ) (nusa

  1. (Shinto) paper or cloth offered on skewers before a shrine (see also (へい) (hei))
  2. (historical) a farewell gift
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
へい
Grade: S
kan’on

Noun edit

(へい) (hei

  1. (Shinto) a staff with cut paper streamers, offered to the gods
    Synonym: 御幣 (gohei)
  2. things offered to the Emperor
  3. a crest pattern of a stylised hei
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
みてぐら
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Noun edit

(みてぐら) (mitegura

  1. (Shinto, historical) material, non-comestible offerings to the gods, often textiles

Etymology 4 edit

Kanji in this term
まい
Grade: S
irregular

Noun edit

(まい) (maiまひ (mafi)?

  1. (archaic) something offered as a reward, either to a god or a person

References edit

  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)[1] (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

Korean edit

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

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Wikisource

(pye) (hangeul , McCune–Reischauer p'ye)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: tệ, giẻ

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