敝邑

Chinese

		(polite) my; poor; ruined (polite) my; poor; ruined; shabby; worn out; defeated	city
simp. and trad. (敝邑)		敝	邑
Literally: “the lowly town; the desolate state”.

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]e[t]-s q(r)[ə]p/

(Zhengzhang): /*beds|bed qrɯb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敝	邑
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bì	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ bjiej^H ›	‹ ʔip ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]e[t]-s/	/*q(r)[ə]p/
English	destroy; worn out	city, town
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

敝邑

(archaic, chiefly pre-Qin, humble) my country, town, or city-state (formulaic humble term among the nobility, referring to the speaker's own place of origin)
- 敝邑易子而食，析骸以爨。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE
  Bìyì yì zǐ ér shí, xī hái yǐ cuàn. [Pinyin]
  In my city we are exchanging our children and eating them, and splitting up their bones for fuel.

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