幣

See also: 币
幣 U+5E63, 幣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E63
← 幢
[U+5E62] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 幤 →
[U+5E64]

Translingual

Han character

幣 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火大中月 (FKLB), four-corner 98227, composition ⿱敝巾)

References
  • KangXi: page 337, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9088
  • Dae Jaweon: page 644, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 753, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5E63

Chinese
trad. 幣
simp. 币*

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (敝) (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, OC *beds) : phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 巾 (“towel”).

Etymology

Wang (1982) relates this to 帛 (OC *braːɡ, “silk”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 幣
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		 /biᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /biajH/
Li
Rong		 /biɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /bĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 bai6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 幣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjiejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]e[t]-s/
English offering of silk

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 幣
Reading # 1/1
No. 634
Phonetic
component		 敝
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 獘
Old
Chinese		 /*beds/

Definitions

幣

  1. money; coin; currency
    Synonym: 錢／钱 (qián)
    金幣／金币  ―  jīnbì  ―  gold coin
    紙幣／纸币  ―  zhǐbì  ―  banknote
    港幣／港币  ―  gǎngbì  ―  Hong Kong dollar
  2. † silk (as a sacrificial offering or gift)
  3. † wealth; belongings
  4. † to give as a gift; to present

Compounds
Derived terms from 幣

References

Japanese
Shinjitai 幣
Kyūjitai
[1]
幣󠄁
幣+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
幣󠄃
幣+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji
幣

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. currency

Readings

Compounds

Etymology
Kanji in this term
幣
ぬさ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 幣 – see the following entry.
【ぬさ】
[noun] This term needs a translation to English.
(This term, 幣, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 幣 • (pye) (hangeul 폐, McCune–Reischauer p'ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

幣: Hán Nôm readings: tệ, giẻ

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