敝

敝	U+655D, 敝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-655D

← 敜
[U+655C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

敞 →
[U+655E]

Translingual

Han character

敝 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月人大 (FBOK), four-corner 9824₀, composition ⿰㡀攵)

Derived terms

徶, 撇, 潎, 獙, 襒, 䠥, 䥕(𬭯), 蔽
嫳, 幣, 弊, 彆, 憋, 撆, 暼, 獘, 瞥, 䌘, 蟞, 斃, 蹩, 鄨, 鐅, 䨆, 鱉(鳖), 鷩(𫜁), 鼈, 龞(𱍈)

Additional Derived Characters

𠍯, 𰈡, 𡡹, 𢠳, 𣊶, 𣘮, 𤏰, 𥋗, 𥢭, 𦒐, 𧒀, 𩡡, 𥳆, 𤺓
𠟈, 𠢪, 𡐞, 𡚁, 𱎏, 𣁢, 𭬅, 𣰉, 𤎨, 𦠞, 𠒳, 𤮕, 𦗥, 𧝬, 𣱔, 𧢍(𬢓), 𧸁, 𮦮, 𩦉, 𱌇, 𣀽

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 472, character 11
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13245
Dae Jaweon: page 824, character 19
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1461, character 4
Unihan data for U+655D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		敝
alternative forms		㡀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 敝
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series () (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 / 形声, OC *beds, *bed): phonetic 巾 (OC *krɯn) + semantic 攴; then, the left component evolved into 㡀, in which the points around the cloth represent dust and/or dirt.

The glyph represents the idea of beating a cloth with a stick to clean it from the dust.

Similar but unrelated to 黹.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bì (bi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bai⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pē / pè

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bì
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bì
  - Wade–Giles: pi⁴
  - Yale: bì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
  - Palladius: би (bi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bai⁶
  - Yale: baih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bei⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pē
  - Tâi-lô: pē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pe
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pe²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pe⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pè
  - Tâi-lô: pè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pex
  - IPA (Taipei): /pe¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pe²¹/

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/
Hui	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/pei⁵⁵/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/pəi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/pʰi²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/pi⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/pi⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pɐi²²/
	Nanning	/pi²²/
	Hong Kong	/pɐi²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/pe²²/ /pe²¹/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/pɛi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/pi⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/pi³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ʔbi³³/

Middle Chinese: bjiejH

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
Baxter	bjiejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/bjæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biaj^H/
Li Rong	/biɛi^H/
Wang Li	/bĭɛi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bai⁶

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	‹ bjiej^H ›
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
Rime group	祭	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	獘	獘
Old Chinese	/*beds/	/*bed/

Definitions

敝

(polite) my; our
- 歡迎來到敝校／欢迎来到敝校 ― huānyíng láidào bì xiào ― Welcome to our school.
(literary) worn-out; shabby; tattered
(literary) decayed; corrupted
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tired; fatigued
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to fail; to be defeated
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to break; to destroy
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 弊 (bì, “fault; defect; drawback”)
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 蔽 (bì, “to cover; to shield; to deceive”)

Compounds

凋敝 (diāobì)
千金敝帚
如棄敝屣 / 如弃敝屣 (rúqìbìxǐ)
季子裘敝
彫敝 / 雕敝 (diāobì)
悉索敝賦 / 悉索敝赋
振衰起敝
敝上
敝人 (bìrén)
敝友
敝國 / 敝国 (bìguó)
敝地
敝塾
敝屣 (bìxǐ)
敝屣尊榮 / 敝屣尊荣
敝屣王侯
敝屣視之 / 敝屣视之
敝屣自珍
敝帚千金 (bìzhǒuqiānjīn)
敝帚自珍 (bìzhǒuzìzhēn)
敝房
敝眷
敝笱
敝膝
敝處 / 敝处
敝號 / 敝号
敝蹝 (bìxǐ)
敝鬼
棄若敝屣 / 弃若敝屣 (qìruòbìxǐ)
民生凋敝
民生彫敝 / 民生雕敝
疲敝
視如敝屣 / 视如敝屣
罷敝 / 罢敝
脣焦舌敝 / 唇焦舌敝
舌敝脣焦 / 舌敝唇焦
蠱敝 / 蛊敝
靡敝

Japanese

Kanji

敝

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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

Korean

Hanja

敝 (eum 폐 (pye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

敝: Hán Nôm readings: tệ

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