啤

啤 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口竹田十 (RHWJ) or 口竹竹十 (RHHJ), four-corner 6604₀, composition ⿰口卑)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 196, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3878
• Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 642, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5564

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth (phonetic)”) + phonetic 卑.

Borrowed from English beer. First attested in 1828, in Robert Morrison's Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect.

啤

1. beer
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to drink beer

   今晚去邊度啤一啤啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   今晚去边度啤一啤啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   gam¹ maan^5-1 heoi³ bin¹ dou⁶ be¹ jat¹ be¹ aa³? [Jyutping]

   Where are we going to drink beer tonight?

   你升職咁開心，點可以唔啤啤佢啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   你升职咁开心，点可以唔啤啤佢啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ sing¹ zik¹ gam³ hoi¹ sam¹, dim² ho² ji⁵ m⁴ be¹ be¹ keoi⁵ aa³? [Jyutping]

   In this happy occasion of your promotion, how could we not drink beer?

• 🐮🍺 (niúbī)

Borrowed from English pair.

啤 (Cantonese)

1. pair
2. Classifier for pairs of objects.
3. Short for 啤牌 (“playing cards”). (Classifier: 副 c)

   玩啤 [Cantonese]  ―  waan² pe¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to play cards

The classifier 啤 (pe1, “pair”) is not used for objects that naturally come in pairs (e.g. eyes, shoes, socks, gloves, chopsticks, etc.), for which 對／对 (deoi3) is used instead.

啤 (Cantonese)

1. to stare; to glare

Borrowed from English press.

啤 (Cantonese)

1. to weld; to solder; to press a mould or seal an edge with a machine

啤

1. (chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription.

啤

1. ^† larynx disorder that causes one to be unable to speak loudly
2. Alternative form of 諀 (bǐ).

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)

啤: Hán Nôm readings: bi, bì

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