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U+500D, 倍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-500D

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 9, +8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人卜廿口 (OYTR), four-corner 20261, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 760
  • Dae Jaweon: page 228, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 183, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+500D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bɯːʔ) : semantic + phonetic (OC *pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs).

Pronunciation 1


Note: erhua-ed - “very”.
Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • pē/pěr - vernacular;
    • pōe/pǒe - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pei⁵¹/
Harbin /pei⁵³/
Tianjin /pei⁵³/
Jinan /pei²¹/
Qingdao /pe⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pei³¹²/
Xi'an /pʰei⁴⁴/
Xining /pʰɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /pei¹³/
Lanzhou /pei¹³/
Ürümqi /pei²¹³/
Wuhan /pei³⁵/
Chengdu /pei¹³/
Guiyang /pei²¹³/
Kunming /pei²¹²/
Nanjing /pəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /pe⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pæ³⁵/
Hohhot /pei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /be²³/
Suzhou /be̞³¹/
Hangzhou /bei¹³/
Wenzhou /bai³⁵/
Hui Shexian /pʰɛ²²/
Tunxi /pə²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /pei⁵⁵/
/pei¹¹/
Xiangtan /bəi²¹/
Gan Nanchang /pʰi²¹/
Hakka Meixian /pʰi⁵³/
Taoyuan /pʰoi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰui²³/
Nanning /pʰui²⁴/
Hong Kong /pʰui¹³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pue²²/
/pe²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /puɔi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /po⁴²/
Shantou (Teochew) /pue³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔbui³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter bojX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/bəiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/bɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bəjX/
Li
Rong
/bᴀiX/
Wang
Li
/bɒiX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/bʱɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
boi6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bèi
Middle
Chinese
‹ bwojX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁəʔ/
English double

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9837
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bɯːʔ/

Definitions

  1. to double
  2. Classifier for the number of times a value is multiplied: times; -fold
      ―  yībǎi bèi  ―  hundredfold; one hundred times
  3. exceptionally; especially
  4. (Mandarin, colloquial) very; extremely

Compounds

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (to give up; to betray; to violate; to have one's back towards)

Compounds

Pronunciation 3


Definitions

  1. Original form of (péi).
  2. Alternative form of  / (péi)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: ばい (bai, Jōyō) (be)
  • Kan-on: はい (hai)
  • Kun: そむく (somuku, 倍く)ます (masu, 倍す)

Compounds

Noun

(ばい) (bai

  1. twice, double, two times
    ()(なか)さんの(いえ)(わたし)(いえ)(ばい)(おお)きさだ。
    Tanaka-san no ie wa watashi no ie no bai no ōkisa da.
    Tanaka's house is twice the size of mine.
    (ばい)にする
    bai ni suru
    to double

Antonyms

Counter

(ばい) (-bai

  1. times, -fold
    この飛行機(ひこうき)はあの飛行機(ひこうき)よりも (さん)(ばい)(はや)い。
    Kono hikōki wa ano hikōki yori mo san-bai hayai.
    This plane is a whole three times faster than that plane.
    (よん)()(ばい)
    yon no go-bai
    4 times 5
  2. (typography) a multiple of 全角 (zenkaku, fullwidth/-height) or 1 em in Western typography
    Antonym: (bu)
    2()(ばい)
    nibai
    2 ems
  3. (typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 88 mils, 881000 in, 8 U (U) and 116 (dan)

See also

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun (gop bae))

  1. hanja form? of (twice; double)

Compounds

Tày

Han character

(transliteration needed)

  1. Nôm form of viòi.

References

  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: bội, bạu, bậu, bụa, buạ, vội

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