pèi
belt ornament
Common 凡 cloth 巾 ornaments worn by people 亻
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 佩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to admire | ||
to respect | ||
to esteem | ||
to admire | ||
to wear (as accessories) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤək-s | bwojH | pèi | to wear at girdle, pendants |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.7114% of movies
1374th most common character in movies
1507th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+4F69 |
Shuowen | “佩，大帶佩也。从人，从凡，从巾。佩必有巾，巾謂之飾。” |
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