敝
Meanings
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- 1.my (polite)
- 2.poor
- 3.ruined
- 4.shabby
- 5.worn out
- 6.defeated
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Wiktionary
- 1.my; our
- 2.worn-out; shabby; tattered
- 3.decayed; corrupted
- 4.tired; fatigued
- 5.to fail; to be defeated
- 6.to break; to destroy
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 巾 (“cloth”) + 攴 (“hand holding a wooden stick”) – a hand hitting a piece of cloth with a stick. Sometimes dots were added around the cloth, producing 㡀 as seen in the modern form. The dots could represent dust or dirt, in which case the character means to beat a cloth with a stick to clean it from dust. Alternatively, the dots could represent broken pieces of cloth, suggesting the meaning of “worn out, tattered,” but evidence of this sense does not appear until the seal script. Unrelated to 黹.
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Related words
破敝 shabby敝屣 worn-out shoes凋敝 impoverished雕敝 variant of 凋敝[diāo bì]民生凋敝 the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment弃若敝屣 to throw away like worn out shoes敝帚千金 lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value敝屣尊荣 to care nothing for worldly fame and glory (idiom)敝帚自珍 to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own视如敝屣 (lit.) to view as worn-out shoes (idiom)弃之如敝屣 to toss away like a pair of worn-out shoes (idiom)