弊
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.detriment
- 2.fraud
- 3.harm
- 4.defeat
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Wiktionary
- 1.fraud; harm; malpractice; deceit
- 2.drawback; defect
- 3.bad; awful; terrible; (of a situation) critical or disastrous
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *beds) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed, “destroy, tatters”) + semantic 廾 (“both hands”): emphatic form of 敝 — destroying something with both hands.
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Stroke order
Components
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