敝

敝 U+655D, 敝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-655D ← 敜 [U+655C] CJK Unified Ideographs 敞 → [U+655E]

Translingual

Han character

敝 (radical 66, 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火月人大 (FBOK), four-corner 9824₀, composition ⿰㡀攵)

1. break, destroy
2. broken, tattered

Derived terms

• 弊, 斃, 蔽, 幣, 蹩, 彆, 鐅, 鼈, 嫳, 撆, 潎, 獘, 鄨, 鷩, 瞥

References

• KangXi: page 472, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13245
• Dae Jaweon: page 824, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1461, character 4
• Unihan data for U+655D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		敝

Glyph origin

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, *bed): phonetic 㡀 + semantic 攴.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: pih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bai⁶
    • Yale: baih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯²²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 敝
Mandarin	Beijing	/pi⁵¹/
	Harbin	/pi⁵³/
	Tianjin	/pi⁵³/
	Jinan	/pi²¹/
	Qingdao	/pi⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/pi³¹²/
	Xi'an	/pi⁴⁴/
	Xining	/pji²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/pi¹³/
	Lanzhou	/pi¹³/
	Ürümqi	/pi²¹³/
	Wuhan	/pi³⁵/
	Chengdu	/pi¹³/
	Guiyang	/pi⁴²/
	Kunming	/pi²¹²/
	Nanjing	/pi⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/pz̩⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pi⁴⁵/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/pi⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/bi²³/
	Suzhou	/bi³¹/
	Hangzhou	/bi¹³/
	Wenzhou	/bei²²/
Hui	Shexian	/pi³²⁴/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/pei⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/pəi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/pʰi²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/pi⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/pi⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pɐi²²/
	Nanning	/pi²²/
	Hong Kong	/pɐi²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pe²²/ /pe²¹/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/pɛi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pi⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pi³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ʔbi³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /biᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	敝
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]e[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beds/, /*bed/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ bjiejH ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]e[t]-s/
English	destroy; worn out
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	敝	敝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	633	645
Phonetic component	敝	敝
Rime group	祭	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	獘	獘
Old Chinese	/*beds/	/*bed/

Definitions

敝

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Compounds

• 凋敝 (diāobì)
• 千金敝帚
• 如棄敝屣／如弃敝屣
• 季子裘敝
• 彫敝
• 悉索敝賦／悉索敝赋
• 振衰起敝
• 敝上
• 敝人 (bìrén)
• 敝友
• 敝國／敝国
• 敝地
• 敝塾

• 敝屣
• 敝屣尊榮／敝屣尊荣
• 敝屣王侯
• 敝屣自珍
• 敝屣視之／敝屣视之
• 敝帚千金
• 敝帚自珍
• 敝房
• 敝眷
• 敝笱
• 敝膝
• 敝處／敝处
• 敝號／敝号

• 敝蹝
• 敝鬼
• 棄若敝屣／弃若敝屣
• 民生凋敝
• 民生彫敝
• 疲敝
• 罷敝／罢敝
• 脣焦舌敝／唇焦舌敝
• 舌敝脣焦／舌敝唇焦
• 蠱敝／蛊敝
• 視如敝屣／视如敝屣
• 靡敝

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Japanese

Kanji

敝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: べ (be)
• Kan-on: へい (hei)
• Kun: やぶれる (yabureru)

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Korean

Hanja

敝 (eum 폐 (pye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

敝: Hán Nôm readings: tệ

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