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漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

幣: cash, bad habit

Also: humble prefix, gift, Shinto offerings of cloth, rope, cut paper

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

巾 carries the meaning · 敝 gives the sound

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ヘイhei · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 紙幣しへいpaper money; note; bill
  • 貨幣かへいmoney; currency; coin
  • 造幣ぞうへいcoinage; mintage
  • 貨幣価値かへいかちcurrency value

Also read ぬさ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Fresh from the loom! This radical represents the soft, woven materials we use every day—from a simple "towel" to a grand "banner" carried into battle.”
More in the 巾 cloth story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
敝

Also built on 敝

幣 takes the 敝 family's reading, ヘイ (hei).

巾

Also built on cloth (巾)

All 15

Also read ヘイ

15 kanji share this on'yomiAll 15

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
幣 cash · 巾
vs弊 abuse · 廾
幣 has 巾 where 弊 has 廾.
In ChineseSimplified 币 · traditional, as in Japanese · bì

Japan keeps the traditional form 幣; mainland China simplifies it to 币.

Simplified
币 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
幣 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bì most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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