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Translingual
Han character
疲 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大木竹水 (KDHE), four-corner 00147, composition ⿸疒皮)
See also
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 770, character 23
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22084
- Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 27
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2669, character 12
- Unihan data for U+75B2
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 陂
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*pral, *prals
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| 詖
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*pral, *prals
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| 彼
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*pralʔ
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| 柀
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*pralʔ
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| 佊
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*pralʔ, *prals
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| 貱
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*prals
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| 跛
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*prals, *paːlʔ
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| 披
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*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
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| 鈹
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*pʰral
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| 帔
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*pʰral, *pʰrals
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| 鮍
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*pʰral
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| 耚
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*pʰral
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| 狓
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*pʰral
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| 翍
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*pʰral
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| 旇
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*pʰral, *brals
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| 秛
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*pʰral, *pʰrals
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| 紴
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*pʰralʔ, *paːl
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| 皮
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*bral
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| 疲
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*bral
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| 被
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*bralʔ, *brals
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| 髲
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*brals
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| 鞁
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*brals
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| 骳
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*mbralʔ
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| 波
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*paːl
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| 碆
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*paːl, *baːl
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| 菠
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*paːl
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| 簸
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*paːlʔ, *paːls
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| 駊
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*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
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| 頗
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*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
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| 坡
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*pʰaːl
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| 玻
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*pʰaːl
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| 破
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*pʰaːls
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| 婆
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*baːl
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| 蔢
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*baːl
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bral): semantic 疒 (“sick”) + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral) – sick and tired.
Etymology
Disputed; which etymology to believe hinges entirely on whether or not to reconstruct a medial -r- in Old Chinese.
- If a medial -r- is not reconstructed, STEDT and Schuessler relate this to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *bal (“tired; thirsty”), whence Burmese ပန်း (pan:, “to be tired”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019)
- Hill (2014), who reconstructs a medial -r-, maintained a connection to Tibetan བརྒྱལ (brgyal, “to faint”), though as seen in Hill (2019), he appears to have abandoned this connection in favor of the former theory.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Pinyin): pí (pi2)
- (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): pi2
- (Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): pí
- Cantonese
- (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): pei4
- (Dongguan, Jyutping++): pai4
- (Taishan, Wiktionary): pei3
- Gan (Wiktionary): pi2
- Hakka
- (Sixian, PFS): phì
- (Hailu, HRS): pi
- (Meixian, Guangdong): pi1
- Jin (Wiktionary): pi1
- Northern Min (KCR): pî
- Eastern Min (BUC): pì
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): pi2
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien, POJ): phî
- (Teochew, Peng'im): pi5
- (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): pi5
- Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): bi4
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6bi
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): bi2
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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疲
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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pí
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ bje ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*(r)aj/
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| English
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weary, exhausted
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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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疲
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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9712
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Phonetic
component
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皮
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Rime
group
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歌
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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皮
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Old
Chinese
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/*bral/
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Definitions
疲
- weary; tired; exhausted
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) weak
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
疲
(Jōyō kanji)
- fatigue
- exhaustion
- tiredness
- weariness
Readings
Korean
Hanja
疲 • (pi) (hangeul 피, revised pi, McCune–Reischauer p'i, Yale phi)
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Vietnamese
Han character
疲: Hán Việt readings: bì
疲: Nôm readings: bì, mệt
- chữ Nôm form of mệt (“tired; to have excessive interest in something”)
References