貶

貶 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月金竹戈人 (BCHIO), four-corner 6283₇, composition ⿰貝乏)

• 𠍥, 𠹰, 𢵉, 𬜎, 𧒅

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1206, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36707
• Dae Jaweon: page 1669, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3628, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8CB6

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *promʔ): semantic 貝 (“shell”) + phonetic 乏 (OC *bob).

Related to Tibetan འཕམ ('pham, “to be defeated”) by Schuessler (2007:166). See Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pam (“to go down”) for more cognates.

貶

1. to reduce; to lower

   貶值／贬值  ―  biǎnzhí  ―  to depreciate

   • 貶食省用，務穡勸分。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     贬食省用，务穑劝分。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Biǎn shí xǐng yòng, wùsè quànfēn. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (literary) to demote

   貶謫／贬谪  ―  biǎnzhé  ―  to demote and banish from the court

   • 一不朝，則貶其爵，再不朝，則削其地。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     一不朝，则贬其爵，再不朝，则削其地。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yī bù cháo, zé biǎn qí jué, zài bù cháo, zé xuē qí dì. [Pinyin]

     If a prince once omitted his attendance at court, he was punished by degradation of rank; if he did so a second time, he was deprived of a portion of his territory.

3. to vilify; to censure; to criticize

   被貶得一文不值／被贬得一文不值  ―  bèi biǎn dé yīwénbùzhí  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (grammar) negative polarity

• (antonym(s) of “to vilify”): 褒 (bāo)

• “貶”, 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–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “贬”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 197.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: へん (hen)
• Kun: けなす (kenasu, 貶す)、おとしめる (otoshimeru, 貶める)、さげすむ (sagesumu, 貶む)

貶 • (pyeom) (hangeul 폄, revised pyeom, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏm, Yale phyem)

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貶: Hán Việt readings: biếm^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}
貶: Nôm readings: bâm^[3][4], mém^[3][4], băm^[1], bướm^[1], bấn^[2]

1. chữ Hán form of biếm
   1. (archaic) to demote; to downgrade; to declass
   2. (in compounds) to vilify; to ridicule; to condemn
2. chữ Nôm form of băm (“to mince”)
3. chữ Nôm form of bướm (“butterfly”)