Chinese characters : Query result

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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