Read Edit View history Discussion 啤 pí HSK3 beer Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 卑 represents the sound. Components 口 口 Meaning component kǒu, kou mouth 卑 卑 Sound component bēi humble, inferior Change in sound 啤 and 卑 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese. Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode