弊

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弊 U+5F0A, 弊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F0A
← 弉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 弋 →

Translingual

Han character

弊 (Kangxi radical 55, 廾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火大廿 (FKT), four-corner 98444, composition ⿱敝廾)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 354, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9644
  • Dae Jaweon: page 670, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 518, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5F0A

Chinese

trad. 弊
simp. # 弊
2nd round simp. 𰐉
alternative forms 獘／毙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蔽 *peds
鄨 *peds, *ped
鷩 *peds, *ped
彆 *peds, *peːd
潎 *pʰeds, *pʰed
斃 *beds, *bed
敝 *beds, *bed
幣 *beds
弊 *beds
鱉 *ped
虌 *ped
憋 *ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥 *pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅 *pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳 *bed, *pʰeːd
撇 *pʰeːd
撆 *pʰeːd
暼 *pʰeːd
蹩 *beːd
襒 *beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *beds) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed, “destroy, tatters”) + semantic 廾 (“both hands”): emphatic form of 敝 — destroying something with both hands.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • pè - vernacular (俗);
  • piah - unknown dialect.
Rime
Character 弊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 祭 (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 毗祭切
Baxter bjiejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/biᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/biɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/bjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/biajH/
Li
Rong 		/biɛiH/
Wang
Li 		/bĭɛiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bai6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 弊
Reading # 1/1
No. 635
Phonetic
component 		敝
Rime
group 		祭
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		獘
Old
Chinese 		/*beds/
Notes 下原作大，注俗作此

Definitions

弊

  1. fraud; harm; malpractice; deceit
  2. drawback; defect
  3. (Cantonese) bad; awful; terrible; (of a situation) critical or disastrous
    弊喇！唔記得帶銀包添。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    弊喇！唔记得带银包添。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    bai6 laa3! m4 gei3 dak1 daai3 ngan4 baau1 tim1.
    Oh crap! I forgot to bring my purse.

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 弊
Kyūjitai
[1]
弊󠄁
弊+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
弊󠄃
弊+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

弊

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. abuse, defect, harm
  2. bad

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
弊
へい
Grade: S
kan'on

Noun

弊(へい) • (hei) 

  1. ill, evil, harm
  2. something tired and worn

References

  1. ^ “弊”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

弊 • (pye) (hangeul 폐, revised pye, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, Yale phyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

弊: Hán Nôm readings: tệ, giẻ

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