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杯

杯

See also: 盃

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

杯 (radical 75 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木一火 (DMF), four-corner 41990, composition ⿰木不)

References

  • KangXi: page 513, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14497
  • Dae Jaweon: page 899, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1166, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+676F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 杯
alt. forms 盃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (不) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
肧 *pʰlɯː, *pʰɯ, *pʰlɯː
俖 *pʰɯːʔ
娝 *prɯʔ
痞 *prɯʔ, *brɯʔ, *pɯʔ
丕 *pʰrɯ
伾 *pʰrɯ
秠 *pʰrɯ, *pʰrɯʔ, *pʰɯ, *pʰɯʔ
駓 *pʰrɯ
怌 *pʰrɯ
豾 *pʰrɯ
髬 *pʰrɯ
魾 *pʰrɯ, *brɯ
鉟 *pʰrɯ, *brɯ
嚭 *pʰrɯʔ
邳 *brɯ
岯 *brɯ
否 *brɯʔ, *pɯʔ
抔 *bɯ, *pʰlɯː
不 *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ'
紑 *pɯ, *pʰɯ, *pʰɯʔ
鴀 *pɯ, *pɯʔ
衃 *pʰɯ, *pʰlɯː
罘 *bɯ
芣 *bɯ
杯 *plɯː
盃 *plɯː
桮 *pɯː
坯 *pʰɯː
胚 *pʰɯː

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 杯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 布回切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /puʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /puoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /puɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pwəj/
Li
Rong		 /puᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /puɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /puɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bēi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 杯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bēi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤə/
English cup

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 杯
Reading # 1/1
No. 1040
Phonetic
component		 不
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 桮
Old
Chinese		 /*plɯː/
Notes 同桮

Definitions

杯

  1. cup, glass
    杯子  ―  bēizi  ―  cup, glass
  2. cup, trophy
    世界杯  ―  shìjièbēi  ―  world cup
  3. Classifier for cups/glasses of drinks.
    一杯茶  ―  yī bēi chá  ―  a cup of tea
    還想喝一杯嗎？ / 还想喝一杯吗？  ―  Hái xiǎng hē yī bēi ma?  ―  Would you like another drink?

Usage notes

  • Nowadays, the variant character 盃 is chiefly used as sense 2, "cup, trophy".

Japanese

A pile of three sake cups on the left

Kanji

杯

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology 1

酒(さか)+つき

Noun

杯 ‎(hiragana さかずき, romaji sakazuki)

  1. sake cup
Synonyms
Alternative forms
See also
  • お猪口 (ちょこ) ‎(ochoko)

Etymology 2

From Sinitic.

Counter

杯 ‎(hiragana はい, romaji -hai)

  1. cupfuls

Suffix

杯 ‎(hiragana はい, romaji -hai)

  1. (games) cup (contest)
Synonyms
Alternative forms

Korean

Hanja

杯 • ‎(bae) (hangeul 배, McCune-Reischauer pae, Yale pay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

杯 (bôi)

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