# 卑

| 卑 | U+5351, &#21329; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5351 |
| ← 卐 [U+5350] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 卒 → [U+5352] |
| 卑 | U+FA35, &#64053; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA35 |
| ← 勤 [U+FA34] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 喝 → [U+FA36] |
| 卑 | U+2F82D, &#194605; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F82D |
| ← 卉 [U+2F82C] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 博 → [U+2F82E] |

## Translingual

| Japanese | 卑 |
| Simplified | 卑 |
| Traditional | 卑 |

### Alternative forms

Note that in Japanese shinjitai, the top left handed stroke ㇓ is written as two separate strokes.

### Han character

卑 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+6 in Chinese, 十+7 in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 竹竹十 (HHJ), four-corner 2640$_0$, composition ⿱⿻白丿十(GHTK) or ⿱丿𤰞(JV))

#### Derived characters

* 俾, 啤, 埤, 婢, 崥, 捭, 渒, 猈, 陴, 椑, 焷, 牌, 琕, 禆, 脾, 㽡, 睥, 碑, 稗, 䇑, 裨, 㗗, 粺, 綼, 聛, 蜱, 䚜, 諀, 豍, 貏, 䠋, 䡟(𬨌), 錍, 鞞, 髀, 䱝, 䴽(𫜔), 朇
* 䰦, 𠜱, 郫, 㪏, 㼰, 䫌, 鵯(鹎), 萆, 箄, 鼙, 顰(颦), 庳, 痺, 𠥉

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2738
* Dae Jaweon: page 356, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 63, character 1
* Unihan data for U+5351
* Unihan data for U+FA35
* Unihan data for U+2F82D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卑 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 捭 | *preːʔ |
| 牌 | *breː, *breː |
| 郫 | *breː, *bre, *be |
| 蠯 | *breː, *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 猈 | *breːʔ, *breː |
| 稗 | *breːs |
| 粺 | *breːs |
| 𥱼 | *breː |
| 豍 | *peː |
| 箄 | *peː, *pe, *peʔ |
| 錍 | *pʰeː, *pe |
| 睥 | *pʰeːs |
| 渒 | *pʰeːs, *pe |
| 鼙 | *beː |
| 鞞 | *beː, *pe, *peʔ, *peːŋʔ |
| 椑 | *beː, *pe, *beɡ, *beːɡ |
| 崥 | *beː, *peʔ |
| 髀 | *beːʔ, *peʔ, *piʔ |
| 卑 | *pe |
| 鵯 | *pe, *pʰiɡ |
| 裨 | *pe, *be |
| 痺 | *pe |
| 碑 | *pre |
| 婢 | *peʔ, *beʔ |
| 諀 | *pʰeʔ |
| 脾 | *be |
| 埤 | *be |
| 陴 | *be |
| 蜱 | *be, *mbew |
| 焷 | *be |
| 螷 | *be, *breːŋʔ |
| 庳 | *beʔ |
| 琕 | *biːŋ |
| 萆 | *beɡ, *slɯʔ |
| 綼 | *biɡ, *peːɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 甲 (“fan”) + 𠂇 (“hand”) - a man holding a fan, indicating that he is a servant.

### Etymology

Note similarities to Burmese ပေ (pe, “to be soiled, dirty”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bēi (bei$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bei$^1$
* Northern Min (KCR): bí
* Eastern Min (BUC): bĭ
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bui$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$pe
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bēi
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bei
*** Wade–Giles: pei$^1$
*** Yale: bēi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bei
*** Palladius: бэй (bɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /peɪ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bei$^1$
*** Yale: bēi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bei$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: béi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pei̯⁵⁵/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bí
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: bĭ
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pi
*** Tâi-lô: pi
*** Phofsit Daibuun: py
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pi³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: bui$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pui
*** Sinological IPA : /pui³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$pe
*** MiniDict: pe$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$pe
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pe⁵³/
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit卑 |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /pei⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /pei²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /pei²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /pe⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /pʰi⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /pi²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /pji⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /pei⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /pi³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /pei⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /pei⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /pəi³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /pe²¹/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /pei¹¹/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /pei¹³/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /pei³¹/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /pe⁵³/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /pe̞⁵⁵/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /pei³³/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /pai³³/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /pe³¹/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | /pe¹¹/ |
| Xiang | Changsha | /pei³³/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /pəi³³/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /pi⁴⁴/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /pei⁵³/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /pi⁵⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /pei⁵⁵/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /pi⁵⁵/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /pi⁴⁴/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /pi⁵⁴/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /pui³³/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /ʔbɔi²³/ |
* Middle Chinese: pjie
Rime :
| Character | 卑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 府移切 |
| Baxter | pjie |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /piᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /piɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /piə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /pie/ |
| Wang Li | /pǐe/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bei$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pe/
    (Zhengzhang): /*pe/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 卑 | 卑 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bēi | bēi |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pjie › | ‹ pjie › |
| Old Chinese | /*pe/ | /*pe/ |
| English | low, humble | 鮮卑 *s[a]r.pe Xiānbēi |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 | 卑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 368 |
| Phonetic component | 卑 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 卑 |
| Old Chinese | /*pe/ |

### Definitions

卑
* low; inferior
* low-lying
* humble; modest; lowly
* to look down on; to disdain
* (literary) to decline; to wane
* a surname

### Compounds

* 不亢不卑 (bùkàngbùbēi)
* 不卑不亢 (bùbēibùkàng)
* 不抗不卑
* 位卑言高
* 偞卑
* 儉卑 / 俭卑
* 克順克卑 / 克顺克卑
* 凡卑
* 前倨後卑 / 前倨后卑
* 卑下 (bēixià)
* 卑不足道 (bēibùzúdào)
* 卑亂 / 卑乱
* 卑人
* 卑以自牧
* 卑伏
* 卑位
* 卑佞
* 卑侮
* 卑俗 (bēisú)
* 卑促
* 卑俯
* 卑冗
* 卑削
* 卑劇 / 卑剧
* 卑劣 (bēiliè)
* 卑劣手段
* 卑卑
* 卑南 (Bēinán)
* 卑南文化
* 卑南族 (Bēinánzú)
* 卑南鄉 / 卑南乡
* 卑虒
* 卑吏
* 卑困
* 卑國 / 卑国
* 卑坐
* 卑子
* 卑孜
* 卑孽
* 卑官 (bēiguān)
* 卑室
* 卑宮 / 卑宫
* 卑宮菲食 / 卑宫菲食
* 卑小 (bēixiǎo)
* 卑局
* 卑屈
* 卑居
* 卑屑
* 卑幼
* 卑庳
* 卑庶
* 卑庸
* 卑弁
* 卑弊
* 卑弱
* 卑微 (bēiwēi)
* 卑怯 (bēiqiè)
* 卑恭
* 卑意
* 卑懦
* 卑扈
* 卑手刀
* 卑抑
* 卑攝 / 卑摄
* 卑服
* 卑末
* 卑柔
* 卑梁
* 卑梁之釁
* 卑棲 / 卑栖
* 卑污 (bēiwū)
* 卑汙 / 卑污 (bēiwū)
* 卑淺 / 卑浅
* 卑湳
* 卑溼 / 卑湿
* 卑濕 / 卑湿
* 卑無高論 / 卑无高论
* 卑爾根 / 卑尔根 (Bēi'ěrgēn)
* 卑狹 / 卑狭
* 卑猥
* 卑瑣 / 卑琐
* 卑田院
* 卑畜
* 卑疵
* 卑目
* 卑碎
* 卑視 / 卑视 (bēishì)
* 卑禮厚幣 / 卑礼厚币
* 卑秩
* 卑稱 / 卑称
* 卑窪 / 卑洼
* 卑立
* 卑籩 / 卑笾
* 卑約 / 卑约
* 卑素
* 卑細 / 卑细
* 卑職 / 卑职 (bēizhí)
* 卑腳 / 卑脚
* 卑菲
* 卑薄
* 卑號 / 卑号
* 卑行
* 卑褻 / 卑亵
* 卑見 / 卑见
* 卑親屬 / 卑亲属
* 卑詞 / 卑词 (bēicí)
* 卑諂 / 卑谄
* 卑論 / 卑论
* 卑謙 / 卑谦
* 卑謹 / 卑谨
* 卑讓 / 卑让
* 卑賤 / 卑贱 (bēijiàn)
* 卑身
* 卑身屈體 / 卑身屈体
* 卑身賤體 / 卑身贱体
* 卑躬
* 卑躬屈節 / 卑躬屈节 (bēigōng-qūjié)
* 卑躬屈膝 (bēigōng-qūxī)
* 卑辭 / 卑辞 (bēicí)
* 卑辭厚幣 / 卑辞厚币
* 卑辭厚禮 / 卑辞厚礼
* 卑辭重幣 / 卑辞重币
* 卑辱
* 卑近
* 卑迖
* 卑遜 / 卑逊
* 卑鄙
* 卑鄙無恥 / 卑鄙无耻 (bēibǐwúchǐ)
* 卑鄙無耻
* 卑鄙齷齪 / 卑鄙龌龊 (bēibǐwòchuò)
* 卑金屬 / 卑金属 (bēijīnshǔ)
* 卑陋
* 卑陋齷齪 / 卑陋龌龊
* 卑院
* 卑陬
* 卑隘
* 卑隱 / 卑隐
* 卑靡
* 卑順 / 卑顺
* 卑飛 / 卑飞
* 卑體 / 卑体
* 卑高
* 喧卑
* 天高聽卑 / 天高听卑
* 女尊男卑 (nǚzūnnánbēi)
* 官卑祿薄 / 官卑禄薄
* 官卑職小 / 官卑职小
* 尊卑 (zūnbēi)
* 尊古卑今
* 尊己卑人
* 居卑
* 崇卑
* 抑卑
* 撝卑 / 㧑卑
* 有卑
* 權重秩卑 / 权重秩卑
* 歎老嗟卑 / 叹老嗟卑
* 汙卑 / 污卑
* 牽卑 / 牵卑
* 男尊女卑 (nánzūnnǚbēi)
* 登高自卑
* 積卑 / 积卑
* 自卑 (zìbēi)
* 自卑感 (zìbēigǎn)
* 菲食卑宮 / 菲食卑宫
* 謙卑 / 谦卑 (qiānbēi)
* 謙卑自牧 / 谦卑自牧
* 賤卑 / 贱卑
* 辨卑
* 辭尊居卑 / 辞尊居卑
* 長幼尊卑 / 长幼尊卑 (zhǎngyòuzūnbēi)
* 降尊臨卑 / 降尊临卑
* 鮮卑 / 鲜卑 (Xiānbēi)
* 鮮卑奴 / 鲜卑奴
* 鮮卑山 / 鲜卑山

### References

* “卑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 卑 |
| Kyūjitai | 卑 &#xFA35; or 卑+&#xFE00; |
| Kyūjitai | 卑󠄀 卑+&#xE0100; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 卑󠄃 卑+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 卑)
* lowly, base, vulgar; vile

#### Readings

* Go-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
* Kun: いやしい (iyashii, 卑しい, Jōyō)、いやしむ (iyashimu, 卑しむ, Jōyō)、いやしめる (iyashimeru, 卑しめる, Jōyō)、ひくい (hikui, 卑い)

### References

* ↑ “卑”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 卑 (MC pjie). Recorded as Middle Korean 비 (pi) (Yale: pi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

### Hanja

Wikisource 卑 (eumhun 낮을 비 (najeul bi))
* hanja form of 비 (“low; inferior”)

#### Compounds

* 비겁 (卑怯, bigeop)
* 비굴 (卑屈, bigul)
* 비금속 (卑金屬, bigeumsok)
* 비속 (卑俗, bisok)
* 비어 (卑語, bieo)
* 비열 (卑劣, biyeol)
* 비하 (卑下, biha)
* 야비 (野卑, yabi)

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

卑: Hán Nôm readings: te, bấy, ti
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