啚

啚 U+555A, 啚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-555A ← 啙 [U+5559] CJK Unified Ideographs 啛 → [U+555B]

Translingual

Alternative forms

Note that the 啚 component in this character is written 口十回 (China, Vietnam), 口亠回 (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea). The Kangxi dictionary form of this character resembles the form used in Japan and Korea, as the component 亠 is written similar to 丄 but with a shorter upward stroke in the Kangxi dictionary.

Han character

啚 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口十田口 (RJWR) or 口卜田口 (RYWR), composition ⿳口十回(GV) or ⿱口㐭(TJK))

Derived characters

• 鄙, 圖, 𥀜, 𨎏, 𩞓, 𩻂, 𪯮, 𥀚, 𨝚, 𡳄, 𤹦, 𫅊, 𮈻, 𫤲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 196, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3829
• Dae Jaweon: page 417, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 638, character 11
• Unihan data for U+555A

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 啚
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (圖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
啚	*prɯʔ, *daː
圖	*daː

Characters in the same phonetic series (啚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鄙	*prɯʔ
啚	*prɯʔ, *daː

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 囗 (“city boundary”) + 㐭 (“granary”) – a granary outside city borders, hence “borderland, countryside”. Original form of 鄙.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 啚 – see 鄙 (“mean; ignoble; low; my; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 鄙).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 啚 – see 圖 (“diagram; plot; chart; map; picture; image; etc.”). (This character is the draft (1955) first-round simplified and variant form of 圖).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “啚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

啚

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. stingy

Readings

• On (unclassified): ひ (hi)、と (to)
• Kun: おしむ (oshimu)

Korean

Hanja

啚 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi)

1. low, mean
2. cheap

Vietnamese

Han character

啚: Hán Nôm readings: bở, bẽ

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