悲

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

悲 (radical 61 心+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中卜心 (LYP), four-corner 1133₁, composition ⿱非心)

1. sorrow, grief
2. sorry, sad

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 388, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10720
• Dae Jaweon: page 721, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2310, character 4
• Unihan data for U+60B2

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		悲

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bēi (bei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pî
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bui¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: pei¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
    • IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei¹
    • Yale: bēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pei̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pî
    • Hakka Romanization System: bi´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bi¹
    • IPA: /pi²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pi
    • Tâi-lô: pi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: py
    • IPA (Taipei): /pi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bui¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pui
    • IPA ^(key): /pui³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pˠiɪ/▼

Rime
Character	悲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	府眉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚi/
Shao Rongfen	/piɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pji/
Li Rong	/pji/
Wang Li	/pi/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bī

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*prəj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*prɯl/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	悲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bēi
Middle Chinese	‹ pij ›
Old Chinese	/*prəj/
English	sad
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	悲
Reading #	1/1
No.	3067
Phonetic component	非
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	悲
Old Chinese	/*prɯl/

DefinitionsEdit

悲

1. grief, sorrow

ReferencesEdit

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

悲

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: ひ (hi)
• Kan’on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: かなしい (悲しい, kanashii), かなしむ (悲しむ, kanashimu), かなしみ (悲しみ, kanashimi)

CompoundsEdit

• 悲劇 (ひげき) ‎(higeki): tragedy
• 悲鳴 (ひめい) ‎(himei): scream
• 悲喜 (ひき) ‎(hiki): joys and sorrows

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

悲 • ‎(bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

悲 (bi, bây, bầy, bay)

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CompoundsEdit

• 悲𣇞 ‎(bây giờ)