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Chinese
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(polite) my; poor; ruined (polite) my; poor; ruined; shabby; worn out; defeated |
city
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simp. and trad.
(敝邑)
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敝
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邑
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| Literally: “the lowly town; the desolate state”.
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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敝
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邑
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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bì
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yì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ bjiejH ›
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‹ ʔip ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*e-s/
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/*q(r)p/
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| English
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destroy; worn out
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city, town
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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敝
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敝
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邑
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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1/1
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| No.
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633
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645
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15021
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Phonetic
component
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敝
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敝
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邑
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Rime
group
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祭
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月
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緝
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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2
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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獘
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獘
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邑
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Old
Chinese
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/*beds/
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/*bed/
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/*qrɯb/
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Pronoun
敝邑
- (archaic, chiefly pre-Qin, humble) my country, town, or city-state (formulaic humble term among the nobility, referring to the speaker's own place of origin)