Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 紕

Modern (Beijing) reading: pí

Preclassic Old Chinese: b(h)ej

Classic Old Chinese: b(h)e

Western Han Chinese: b(h)e

Eastern Han Chinese: b(h)je

Early Postclassic Chinese: b(h)je

Middle Postclassic Chinese: b(h)je

Late Postclassic Chinese: b(h)je

Middle Chinese: be

English meaning : braid

Russian meaning[s]: 1) убирать, украшать, обставлять (напр. комнату); 2) бахрома; каемка, бордюр; оторочка, обметка; 3) ошибочный, неверный; [pī] грубый, небрежный

Comments: Also read *b(h)ij-s (MC bjì) id. During LZ used also for *phij (MC phji, Pek. pī) 'inferior silk stuff'; *phij / *phej (MC phje) / *pīj (MC piej, Pek. bī) 'error'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 6930

Karlgren code: 0566 t

Shijing occurrences: 53.1_

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ph[ĭ]l

Meaning: a k. of cloth

Chinese: 紕 *phij inferior silk stuff.

Burmese: phajh sateen, brocade.

Kachin: pan cloth, cotton cloth.

Comments: Cf. PAN *habe'l 'weave, cloth, blanket'.