Wiktionary

幣

See also: 币
幣 U+5E63, 幣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E63
← 幢
[U+5E62] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 幤 →
[U+5E64]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: 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

ChineseEdit

trad. 幣
simp. 币*

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (敝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蔽 *peds
鄨 *peds, *ped
鷩 *peds, *ped
彆 *peds, *peːd
潎 *pʰeds, *pʰed
斃 *beds, *bed
敝 *beds, *bed
幣 *beds
弊 *beds
鱉 *ped
虌 *ped
憋 *ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥 *pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅 *pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳 *bed, *pʰeːd
撇 *pʰeːd
撆 *pʰeːd
暼 *pʰeːd
蹩 *beːd
襒 *beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *beds): phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 巾 (“towel”).

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 幣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 祭 (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 毗祭切
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 		bì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bai6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 幣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bì
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 幣
Reading # 1/1
No. 634
Phonetic
component 		敝
Rime
group 		祭
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		獘
Old
Chinese 		/*beds/

DefinitionsEdit

幣

  1. money; coin; currency
    Synonym: 錢／钱 (qián)
    金幣／金币  ―  jīnbì  ―  gold coin
    紙幣／纸币  ―  zhǐbì  ―  banknote
    港幣／港币  ―  gǎngbì  ―  Hong Kong dollar
  2. † silk (as a sacrificial offering or gift)
  3. † wealth; belongings
  4. † to give as a gift; to present

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 幣

JapaneseEdit

Shinjitai 幣
Kyūjitai
[1]
幣󠄁
幣+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1) 		 
幣󠄃
幣+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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KanjiEdit

幣

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. currency

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Kanji in this term
幣
ぬさ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 幣 – see the following entry.
【ぬさ】
[noun] This term needs a translation to English.
(This term, 幣, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “幣”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎[1] (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

幣 • (pye) (hangeul 폐, McCune–Reischauer p'ye)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

幣: Hán Nôm readings: tệ, giẻ

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