Character: 悲
Modern (Beijing) reading: bēi
Preclassic Old Chinese: prǝj
Classic Old Chinese: prǝj
Western Han Chinese: prǝj
Eastern Han Chinese: prǝj
Early Postclassic Chinese: pij
Middle Postclassic Chinese: pij
Late Postclassic Chinese: pi
Middle Chinese: pi
English meaning : be unhappy, pained
Russian meaning[s]: 1) скорбеть, горевать, убиваться, оплакивать; горе, скорбь; боль; страдание; 2) жалеть, сожалеть; сочувствие, жалость, сострадание
Comments: This is probably a suffixed form of the root, present in 憤 *b(h)ǝrʔ 'full of annoyance, full of dissatisfied eagerness'.
Radical: 61
Four-angle index: 8423
Karlgren code: 0579 u
Shijing occurrences: 14.3_
