卑

卑 U+5351, 卑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5351
← 卐
[U+5350]
CJK Unified Ideographs 卒 →
[U+5352]

卑 U+FA35, 卑
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA35
← 勤
[U+FA34]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs 喝 →
[U+FA36]

卑 U+2F82D, 卑
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F82D
← 卉
[U+2F82C]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 博 →
[U+2F82E]

Translingual

Japanese 卑
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

References

Chinese

simp. and trad.
卑

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 甲 (“fan”) + 𠂇 (“hand”) - a man holding a fan, indicating that he is a servant.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 卑
Mandarin Beijing /pei⁵⁵/
Harbin /pei⁴⁴/
Tianjin /pei²¹/
Jinan /pei²¹³/
Qingdao /pe⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰi⁵³/
Xi'an /pi²¹/
Xining /pji⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pei⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /pi³¹/
Ürümqi /pei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /pei⁵⁵/
Chengdu /pei⁵⁵/
Guiyang /pei⁵⁵/
Kunming /pei⁴⁴/
Nanjing /pəi³¹/
Hefei /pe²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /pei¹¹/
Pingyao /pei¹³/
Hohhot /pei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /pe⁵³/
Suzhou /pe̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /pei³³/
Wenzhou /pai³³/
Hui Shexian /pe³¹/
Tunxi /pe¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pei³³/
Xiangtan /pəi³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /pi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /pei⁵³/
Nanning /pi⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pei⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pi⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pi⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pi⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pui³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbɔi²³/

Rime
Character 卑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 府移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/piᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/piɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/pjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/piə̆/
Li
Rong
/pie/
Wang
Li
/pǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bei1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 卑 卑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bēi bēi
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjie › ‹ pjie ›
Old
Chinese
/*pe/ /*pe/
English low, humble 鮮卑 *s[a]r.pe Xiānbēi

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 卑
Reading # 1/1
No. 368
Phonetic
component
卑
Rime
group
支
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
卑
Old
Chinese
/*pe/

Definitions

卑

  1. low; inferior
  2. humble

Compounds

  • 卑鄙 (bēibǐ)
  • 卑陋
  • 卑高
  • 尊卑 (zūnbēi)
  • 尊古卑今
  • 尊己卑人
  • 男尊女卑 (nánzūnnǚbēi)
  • 登高自卑
  • 自卑 (zìbēi)
  • 自卑感 (zìbēigǎn)
  • 克順克卑/克顺克卑
  • 前倨後卑/前倨后卑
  • 卑南鄉/卑南乡
  • 卑宮/卑宫
  • 卑宮菲食/卑宫菲食
  • 卑梁之釁/卑梁之衅
  • 卑汙/卑污
  • 卑溼/卑湿
  • 卑無高論/卑无高论
  • 卑爾根/卑尔根 (Bēi'ěrgēn)
  • 卑禮厚幣/卑礼厚币
  • 卑職/卑职 (bēizhí)

Japanese

Shinjitai 卑
Kyūjitai
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卑
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or
卑+&#xFE00;?
卑󠄀
卑+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
卑󠄃
卑+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

卑

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 卑)

  1. lowly, base, vulgar; vile

Readings

References

  1. “卑”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 卑 (MC piᴇ). Recorded as Middle Korean 비 (pi) (Yale: pi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 卑 (eumhun 낮을 비 (najeul bi))

  1. Hanja form? of 비 (“low; inferior”).

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.

Vietnamese

Han character

卑: Hán Nôm readings: te, bấy, ti

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