悲

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悲 U+60B2, 悲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60B2
← 悱
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 悳 →

Translingual

Han character

悲 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中卜心 (LYP), four-corner 11331, composition ⿱非心)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 388, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10720
  • Dae Jaweon: page 721, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2310, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+60B2

Chinese

trad. 悲
simp. # 悲

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 悲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (非) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
啡 *pʰɯːlʔ
排 *brɯːl
俳 *brɯːl
輫 *brɯːl, *buːl
悲 *prɯl
棑 *breː, *brɯːls
輩 *puːls
裴 *buːl, *bɯl
徘 *buːl
琲 *buːlʔ
痱 *buːlʔ, *pɯds, *bɯl, *bɯls
非 *pɯl
扉 *pɯl
緋 *pɯl
猆 *pɯl
斐 *pɯl, *pʰɯlʔ
馡 *pɯl
騑 *pɯl, *pʰɯl
誹 *pɯl, *pɯlʔ, *pɯls
餥 *pɯl, *pɯlʔ
匪 *pɯlʔ
棐 *pɯlʔ
蜚 *pɯlʔ, *bɯls
篚 *pɯlʔ
榧 *pɯlʔ
鯡 *pɯls
霏 *pʰɯl
菲 *pʰɯl, *pʰɯlʔ, *bɯls
婔 *pʰɯl
裶 *pʰɯl
悱 *pʰɯlʔ
奜 *pʰɯlʔ
腓 *bɯl, *bɯls
陫 *bɯlʔ
屝 *bɯls
厞 *bɯls
翡 *bɯls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *prɯl) : phonetic 非 (OC *pɯl) + semantic 心 (“heart; thought; emotion”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 悲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 府眉切
Baxter pij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pji/
Li
Rong 		/pji/
Wang
Li 		/pi/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bei1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 悲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bēi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*prəj/
English sad

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 悲
Reading # 1/1
No. 3067
Phonetic
component 		非
Rime
group 		微
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		悲
Old
Chinese 		/*prɯl/

Definitions

悲

  1. sad; sorrowful
  2. to pity

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

悲

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. sad
    Antonym: 楽
  2. pity; compassion

Readings

Compounds

References

Korean

Hanja

悲 (eumhun 슬플 비 (seulpeul bi))

  1. hanja form? of 비 (“sad”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

悲: Hán Nôm readings: bi, bây, bầy, bay

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Compounds

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