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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中卜心 (LYP), four-corner 11331, composition)

  1. sorrow, grief
  2. sorry, sad

References

  • KangXi: page 388, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10720
  • Dae Jaweon: page 721, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2310, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+60B2

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pʰɯːlʔ
*brɯːl
*brɯːl
*brɯːl, *buːl
*prɯl
*breː, *brɯːls
*puːls
*buːl, *bɯl
*buːl
*buːlʔ
*buːlʔ, *pɯds, *bɯl, *bɯls
*pɯl
*pɯl
*pɯl
*pɯl
*pɯl, *pʰɯlʔ
*pɯl
*pɯl, *pʰɯl
*pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls
*pɯl, *pɯlʔ
*pɯlʔ
*pɯlʔ
*pɯlʔ, *bɯls
*pɯlʔ
*pɯlʔ
*pɯls
*pʰɯl
*pʰɯl, *pʰɯlʔ, *bɯls
*pʰɯl
*pʰɯl
*pʰɯlʔ
*pʰɯlʔ
*bɯl, *bɯls
*bɯlʔ
*bɯls
*bɯls
*bɯls

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen
/piɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pji/
Li
Rong
/pji/
Wang
Li
/pi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bēi
Middle
Chinese
‹ pij ›
Old
Chinese
/*prəj/
English sad

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3067
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*prɯl/

Definitions

  1. grief, sorrow

References


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. sad

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(bi) (hangeul , revised bi, McCune-Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bi, bây, bầy, bay)

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Compounds