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Translingual
| Japanese | 卑 |
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| Simplified | 卑 |
| Traditional | 卑 |
Alternative forms
Note that in Japanese shinjitai, the top left handed stroke ㇓ is written as two separate strokes.
Han character
卑 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+6 in Chinese, 十+7 in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 竹竹十 (HHJ), four-corner 26400, composition ⿱⿻白丿十(GHTK) or ⿱丿𤰞(JV))
Derived characters
- 俾, 啤, 埤, 婢, 崥, 捭, 渒, 猈, 陴, 椑, 焷, 牌, 琕, 禆, 脾, 㽡, 睥, 碑, 稗, 䇑, 裨, 㗗, 粺, 綼, 聛, 蜱, 䚜, 諀, 豍, 貏, 䠋, 䡟(𬨌), 錍, 鞞, 髀, 䱝, 䴽(𫜔), 朇
- 䰦, 𠜱, 郫, 㪏, 㼰, 䫌, 鵯(鹎), 萆, 箄, 鼙, 顰(颦), 庳, 痺, 𠥉
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 27
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2738
- Dae Jaweon: page 356, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 63, character 1
- Unihan data for U+5351
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
卑 | |
|---|---|---|
| alternative forms | 𤰞 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 卑 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003)
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 捭 | *preːʔ |
| 牌 | *breː, *breː |
| 郫 | *breː, *bre, *be |
| 蠯 | *breː, *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 猈 | *breːʔ, *breː |
| 稗 | *breːs |
| 粺 | *breːs |
| 𥱼 | *breː |
| 豍 | *peː |
| 箄 | *peː, *pe, *peʔ |
| 錍 | *pʰeː, *pe |
| 睥 | *pʰeːs |
| 渒 | *pʰeːs, *pe |
| 鼙 | *beː |
| 鞞 | *beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ |
| 椑 | *beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ |
| 崥 | *beː, *peʔ |
| 髀 | *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ |
| 卑 | *pe |
| 鵯 | *pe, *pʰiɡ |
| 裨 | *pe, *be |
| 痺 | *pe |
| 碑 | *pre |
| 婢 | *peʔ, *beʔ |
| 諀 | *pʰeʔ |
| 脾 | *be |
| 埤 | *be |
| 陴 | *be |
| 蜱 | *be, *mbew |
| 焷 | *be |
| 螷 | *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 庳 | *beʔ |
| 琕 | *biːŋ |
| 萆 | *beɡ, *slɯʔ |
| 綼 | *biɡ, *peːɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 甲 (“fan”) + 𠂇 (“hand”) - a man holding a fan, indicating that he is a servant.
Etymology
Note similarities to Burmese ပေ (pe, “to be soiled, dirty”).
The Mandarin pronunciation bēi differs from the expected pronunciation bī (carrying forward from Middle Chinese pjie) due to homophony avoidance with the vulgar word 屄 (bī, “cunt”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bei1
- Northern Min (KCR): bí
- Eastern Min (BUC): bĭ
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1pe
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: bēi
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bei
- Wade–Giles: pei1
- Yale: bēi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
- Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /peɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: bei1
- Yale: bēi
- Cantonese Pinyin: bei1
- Guangdong Romanization: béi1
- Sinological IPA (key): /pei̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bí
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi⁵⁴/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pi
- Tâi-lô: pi
- Phofsit Daibuun: py
- IPA (Xiamen): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pi³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /pi⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: bui1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pui
- Sinological IPA (key): /pui³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: pjie
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*pe/
- (Zhengzhang): /*pe/
Definitions
卑
- low; inferior
- low-lying
- humble; modest; lowly
- to look down on; to disdain
- (literary) to decline; to wane
- a surname
Compounds
- 不亢不卑 (bùkàngbùbēi)
- 不卑不亢 (bùbēibùkàng)
- 不抗不卑
- 位卑言高
- 偞卑
- 儉卑 / 俭卑
- 克順克卑 / 克顺克卑
- 凡卑
- 前倨後卑 / 前倨后卑
- 卑下 (bēixià)
- 卑不足道 (bēibùzúdào)
- 卑亂 / 卑乱
- 卑人
- 卑以自牧
- 卑伏
- 卑位
- 卑佞
- 卑侮
- 卑俗 (bēisú)
- 卑促
- 卑俯
- 卑冗
- 卑削
- 卑劇 / 卑剧
- 卑劣 (bēiliè)
- 卑劣手段
- 卑卑
- 卑南 (Bēinán)
- 卑南文化
- 卑南族 (Bēinánzú)
- 卑南鄉 / 卑南乡
- 卑虒
- 卑吏
- 卑困
- 卑國 / 卑国
- 卑坐
- 卑子
- 卑孜
- 卑孽
- 卑官 (bēiguān)
- 卑室
- 卑宮 / 卑宫
- 卑宮菲食 / 卑宫菲食
- 卑小 (bēixiǎo)
- 卑局
- 卑屈
- 卑居
- 卑屑
- 卑幼
- 卑庳
- 卑庶
- 卑庸
- 卑弁
- 卑弊
- 卑弱
- 卑微 (bēiwēi)
- 卑怯 (bēiqiè)
- 卑恭
- 卑意
- 卑懦
- 卑扈
- 卑手刀
- 卑抑
- 卑攝 / 卑摄
- 卑服
- 卑末
- 卑柔
- 卑梁
- 卑梁之釁
- 卑棲 / 卑栖
- 卑污 (bēiwū)
- 卑汙 / 卑污 (bēiwū)
- 卑淺 / 卑浅
- 卑湳
- 卑溼 / 卑湿
- 卑濕 / 卑湿
- 卑無高論 / 卑无高论
- 卑爾根 / 卑尔根 (Bēi'ěrgēn)
- 卑狹 / 卑狭
- 卑猥
- 卑瑣 / 卑琐
- 卑田院
- 卑畜
- 卑疵
- 卑目
- 卑碎
- 卑視 / 卑视 (bēishì)
- 卑禮厚幣 / 卑礼厚币
- 卑秩
- 卑稱 / 卑称
- 卑窪 / 卑洼
- 卑立
- 卑籩 / 卑笾
- 卑約 / 卑约
- 卑素
- 卑細 / 卑细
- 卑職 / 卑职 (bēizhí)
- 卑腳 / 卑脚
- 卑菲
- 卑薄
- 卑號 / 卑号
- 卑行
- 卑褻 / 卑亵
- 卑見 / 卑见
- 卑親屬 / 卑亲属
- 卑詞 / 卑词 (bēicí)
- 卑諂 / 卑谄
- 卑論 / 卑论
- 卑謙 / 卑谦
- 卑謹 / 卑谨
- 卑讓 / 卑让
- 卑賤 / 卑贱 (bēijiàn)
- 卑身
- 卑身屈體 / 卑身屈体
- 卑身賤體 / 卑身贱体
- 卑躬
- 卑躬屈節 / 卑躬屈节 (bēigōng-qūjié)
- 卑躬屈膝 (bēigōng-qūxī)
- 卑辭 / 卑辞 (bēicí)
- 卑辭厚幣 / 卑辞厚币
- 卑辭厚禮 / 卑辞厚礼
- 卑辭重幣 / 卑辞重币
- 卑辱
- 卑近
- 卑迖
- 卑遜 / 卑逊
- 卑鄙
- 卑鄙無恥 / 卑鄙无耻 (bēibǐwúchǐ)
- 卑鄙無耻
- 卑鄙齷齪 / 卑鄙龌龊 (bēibǐwòchuò)
- 卑金屬 / 卑金属 (bēijīnshǔ)
- 卑陋
- 卑陋齷齪 / 卑陋龌龊
- 卑院
- 卑陬
- 卑隘
- 卑隱 / 卑隐
- 卑靡
- 卑順 / 卑顺
- 卑飛 / 卑飞
- 卑體 / 卑体
- 卑高
- 喧卑
- 天高聽卑 / 天高听卑
- 女尊男卑 (nǚzūnnánbēi)
- 官卑祿薄 / 官卑禄薄
- 官卑職小 / 官卑职小
- 尊卑 (zūnbēi)
- 尊古卑今
- 尊己卑人
- 居卑
- 崇卑
- 抑卑
- 撝卑 / 㧑卑
- 有卑
- 權重秩卑 / 权重秩卑
- 歎老嗟卑 / 叹老嗟卑
- 汙卑 / 污卑
- 牽卑 / 牵卑
- 男尊女卑 (nánzūnnǚbēi)
- 登高自卑
- 積卑 / 积卑
- 自卑 (zìbēi)
- 自卑感 (zìbēigǎn)
- 菲食卑宮 / 菲食卑宫
- 謙卑 / 谦卑 (qiānbēi)
- 謙卑自牧 / 谦卑自牧
- 賤卑 / 贱卑
- 辨卑
- 辭尊居卑 / 辞尊居卑
- 長幼尊卑 / 长幼尊卑 (zhǎngyòuzūnbēi)
- 降尊臨卑 / 降尊临卑
- 鮮卑 / 鲜卑 (Xiānbēi)
- 鮮卑奴 / 鲜卑奴
- 鮮卑山 / 鲜卑山
References
- “卑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
| Shinjitai | 卑 | |
| Kyūjitai [1] |
卑 卑or 卑+ ︀?
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| 卑󠄃 卑+ 󠄃?(Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) | ||
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Kanji
卑
(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 卑)
Readings
- Go-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
- Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
- Kun: いやしい (iyashii, 卑しい, Jōyō)←いやし (iyasi, 卑し, historical)、いやしむ (iyashimu, 卑しむ, Jōyō)、いやしめる (iyashimeru, 卑しめる, Jōyō)、ひくい (hikui, 卑い)←ひくし (fikusi, 卑し, historical)
References
- ^ “卑”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 卑 (MC pjie). Recorded as Middle Korean 비 (pi) (Yale: pi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
Hanja
Compounds
References
- 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]
Vietnamese
Han character
卑: Hán Nôm readings: te, bấy, ti
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