疲

疲 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大木竹水 (KDHE), four-corner 0014₇, composition ⿸疒皮)

• 波

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 770, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22084
• Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2669, character 12
• Unihan data for U+75B2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bral): semantic 疒 (“sick”) + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral) – sick and tired.

Disputed; which etymology to believe hinges entirely on whether or not to reconstruct a medial -r- in Old Chinese.

• If a medial -r- is not reconstructed, STEDT and Schuessler relate this to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *bal (“tired; thirsty”), whence Burmese ပန်း (pan:, “to be tired”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019)
• Hill (2014), who reconstructs a medial -r-, maintained a connection to Tibetan བརྒྱལ (brgyal, “to faint”), though as seen in Hill (2019), he appears to have abandoned this connection in favor of the former theory.

疲

1. weary; tired; exhausted
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) weak

(Jōyō kanji)

1. fatigue
2. exhaustion
3. tiredness
4. weariness

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kun: つかれる (tsukareru, 疲れる, Jōyō)

疲 • (pi) (hangeul 피, revised pi, McCune–Reischauer p'i, Yale phi)

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疲: Hán Việt readings: bì^[1][2][3]
疲: Nôm readings: bì^[4], mệt^[4]

1. chữ Nôm form of mệt (“tired; to have excessive interest in something”)