彼

彼 (radical 60, 彳+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹人木竹水 (HODHE), four-corner 2424₇, composition ⿰彳皮)

• KangXi: page 365, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10066
• Dae Jaweon: page 685, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 817, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5F7C

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pralʔ) : semantic 彳 + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral).

Related to 夫 (OC *pa, *ba, “that”) (Schuessler, 2007).

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彼

1. that; those
2. other

Related to 許／许 (hí, hír, “that”); see there for more.

Pronunciation 2 is a fusion word of 許／许 (hí, hír, “that”) + 一 (it, “one”); compare Mandarin 那 (nèi), from 那 (nà, “that”) + 一 (yī, “one”) (Mei and Yang, 1995).

彼

1. (Zhangzhou, Taiwanese Hokkien) that (demonstrative pronoun)

   這是阮老母，彼是阮老爸。 [Taiwanese, trad.]
   这是阮老母，彼是阮老爸。 [Taiwanese, simp.]

   Che sī goán lāu-bó, he sī goán lāu-pē. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   This is my mother, and that is my father.

彼

1. (Min Nan) that (demonstrative determiner)

   彼本冊 / 彼本册 [Taiwanese]  ―  hit pún chheh [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  that book

• “Entry #3891”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kun: あ (a, 彼); あの (ano, 彼の); あれ (are, 彼); あれ (are, 彼れ); か (ka, 彼); かれ (kare, 彼, Jōyō); かの (kano, 彼, Jōyō, uncommon)
• Nanori: その (sono)

From Old Japanese.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​ [káꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠]

彼 (hiragana か, rōmaji ka)

1. distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon

From Old Japanese. Compound of 彼 (ka, “that, yon”) +‎ れ (-re, nominalizing suffix for demonstratives). Found in the Man'yōshū compiled around 759.

The sense development seems to have proceeded from "that thing over there" to "that person over there [of indeterminate gender]". The specifically male sense of "he" only arose later during the late Edo period and early Meiji period, influenced by translations of texts from European languages.[2][1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​れ [káꜜrè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɾe̞]

彼 (hiragana かれ, rōmaji kare)

1. distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 18, poem 4045)

     於伎敝欲里 美知久流之保能 伊也麻之尓 安我毛布支見我 弥不根可母加礼

2. third person pronoun: he, she
   1. particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he
   2. by extension from he: boyfriend

• (boyfriend): 彼氏 (かれし) (kareshi)

彼 • (pi)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 피
  • Name (hangeul): 저, 그, 저쪽

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彼 (bỉ, bể, bở)

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