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U+5564, 啤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5564

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口竹田十 (RHWJ) or 口竹竹十 (RHHJ), four-corner 66040, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 196, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3878
  • Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 642, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5564

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) : semantic (mouth (phonetic)) + phonetic .

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Borrowed from English beer. First attested in 1828, in Robert Morrison's Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. beer (Used in compounds.)
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to drink beer
    今晚邊度 [Cantonese, trad.]
    今晚边度 [Cantonese, simp.]
    gam1 maan5-1 heoi3 bin1 dou6 be1 jat1 be1 aa3?
    Where are we going to drink beer tonight?
    升職開心可以 [Cantonese, trad.]
    升职开心可以 [Cantonese, simp.]
    nei5 sing1 zik1 gam3 hoi1 sam1, dim2 ho2 ji5 m4 be1 be1 keoi5 aa3?
    In this happy occasion of your promotion, how could we not drink beer?

Compounds

See also

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𠵿
𠯔
pair

Borrowed from English pair.

From 1950 at the earliest. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “can we improve this date?”)

Pronunciation

Definitions

(Cantonese)

  1. pair
  2. Classifier for pairs of objects.
  3. Short for 啤牌.
    1. playing card (Classifier: c;  c;  c;  c)
    2. (by extension) card game
      [Cantonese]  ―  waan2 pe1   ―  to play cards
Synonyms
Usage notes

The classifier (pe1, “pair”) is not used for objects that naturally come in pairs (e.g. eyes, shoes, socks, gloves, chopsticks, etc.), for which (deoi3) is used instead.

Compounds

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Pronunciation

Definitions

(Cantonese)

  1. to stare; to glare
    [Cantonese]  ―  nou6 be1   ―  to stare someone angrily

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.

Borrowed from English press.

Pronunciation

Definitions

(Cantonese)

  1. to weld; to solder; to press a mould or seal an edge with a machine
  2. to apply pressure to cause something to flow through

Compounds

Etymology 5

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation

Definitions

  1. (chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription.

Compounds

Etymology 6

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. larynx disorder that causes one to be unable to speak loudly
  2. Alternative form of ()

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: (hi)
  • Kan-on: (hi)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: bi,

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