唄

唄 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口月山金 (RBUC) or 難口月山金 (XRBUC), four-corner 6608₀, composition ⿰口貝)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 191, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3694
• Dae Jaweon: page 411, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 628, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5504

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唄

1. (colloquial) Particle indicating obviousness or grudging agreement.

   甲：為啥你穿校服？
   乙：去上課唄。 [MSC, trad.]
   甲：为啥你穿校服？
   乙：去上课呗。 [MSC, simp.]

   Jiǎ: Wèishá nǐ chuān xiàofú?
   Yǐ: Qù shàngkè bei.

   A: Why are you wearing school uniform?
   B: Err, I'm off to school... (duh!)

Likely from Sanskrit or via Middle Indo-Aryan. The Yiqiejing Yinyi lists the form 唄匿 (MC baejH nrik), likely related Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit भाणक (bhāṇaka, “chanter; speaker”), from Sanskrit भणति (bhaṇati) and cognate with Pali bhāṇaka (“reciter of the scriptures”); and also the more "orthodox" 婆師 (MC ba srij), likely from भाषते (bhāṣate, “to speak”), compare Gandhari 𐨧𐨮𐨡𐨁 (bhaṣadi, “speaks; to speak”), Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā, “speech”). In the Pali parallels, the verb for chanting or reciting a verse (gāthā) is often the cognate bhāsati.

Some older works suggest derivation from Sanskrit पाठ (pāṭha) (e.g. Soothill & Hodous, 1937), but with semantic and phonological difficulties.

唄

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Buddhism) chanting; sound of chanting
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Buddhism) to chant

(Jōyō kanji)

1. song (especially when played with a shamisen)

• Go-on: べ (be)
• Kan-on: はい (hai)
• Kan’yō-on: ばい (bai)
• Kun: うた (uta, 唄, Jōyō ^†)、うたう (utau, 唄う)^{←うたふ (utafu, 唄ふ, historical)}

唄 • (pae) (hangeul 패, revised pae, McCune–Reischauer p'ae)

1. (Buddhism) The sound of reciting the Buddhist scriptures

唄: Hán Nôm readings: bái

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