TranslingualEdit
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EtymologyEdit
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
Cowries were used as money in ancient China (Shell money).
Han characterEdit
貝 (radical 154 貝+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月山金 (BUC), four-corner 60800)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 1204, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36656
- Dae Jaweon: page 1665, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3622, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8C9D
ChineseEdit
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| trad. | 貝 | |
| simp. | 贝 | |
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bui3
- Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): pi
- Min Nan (POJ): pòe
- Wu (WT Romanisation): pe (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˋ
- Wade-Giles: pei4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bey
- IPA (key): /peɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: bui3
- Yale: bui
- Cantonese Pinyin: bui3
- IPA (key): /puːi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pi
- IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /pi⁵⁵/
- Romanisations:
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- WT Romanisation: pe (T2)
- IPA (key): /pᴇ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (貝, reconstructed) | ||||||
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| Character (貝), Pronunciation 1/1 | ||||||
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Initial: 幫 (1) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 愽蓋切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /pɑiH/ | /pɑiH/ | /pɑiH/ | /pɑiH/ | /pajH/ | /pɑiH/ | /pɑiH/ |
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| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
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Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 貝 | 415 | 貝 | 祭 | 1 | 貝 | /*paːds/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DefinitionsEdit
貝
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
貝
ReadingsEdit
- Goon: はい (hai) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: はい (hai) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’yōon: ばい (bai) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kun: かい (kai)
CompoundsEdit
NounEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
貝 (pae)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 패 (revised: pae, McCune-Reischauer: p'ae, Yale: phay)
- Name (hangeul): 조개 (revised: jogae)
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