Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pĕ (~ b-; -t)

Meaning: damaged, useless

Chinese: 敝 *bets be worn out, broken; throw out, conceal, 弊 *bets damage, harm, evil.

Tibetan: bre unfit, useless, worthless; sbed (pf. sbas, f. sba, i. sbos) to hide, conceal.

Kachin: (H) be, bje be useless.

Chinese characters :

Character: 敝

Modern (Beijing) reading: bì

Preclassic Old Chinese: bets

Classic Old Chinese: beć

Western Han Chinese: bjaś

Eastern Han Chinese: bjaś

Early Postclassic Chinese: bjeś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: bjèj

Late Postclassic Chinese: bjèj

Middle Chinese: bjèj

English meaning : be worn out, broken

Russian meaning[s]: 1) рваный, истрепанный; испорченный; разорванный; ломать, портить; 2) вежл. мой, наш; 3) устать

Comments: For *b cf. Fuzhou pe⁶, Chaozhou pi⁴. Since Late Zhou written also as 弊 with a shifted meaning: 'to damage, harm; vice, evil'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 66

Four-angle index: 6207

Karlgren code: 0341 a-c

Vietnamese reading: tệ

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1180

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 敝

MC description : 蟹開三去祭並

ZIHUI: 2411 0536

Beijing: pi 3

Jinan: pi 3

Xi'an: pi 3

Taiyuan: pi 3

Hankou: pei 3

Chengdu: pi 3

Yangzhou: pi 3

Suzhou: bi 32

Wenzhou: bei 32

Changsha: pei 31

Shuangfeng: bi 32

Nanchang: phi 32

Meixian: pi 3

Guangzhou: pai 32

Xiamen: pe 31

Chaozhou: pi 22

Fuzhou: pei 32

Shanghai: pi 32

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