Chinese Character Wiki

妣

bǐ

one's deceased mother

Components
女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

woman

比 sound component

比  Sound component

bǐ, bī, bì

  

to compare

Evolution

妣 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
妣 Bronze script Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
妣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
妣 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
妣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

妣  

bǐ

one's deceased mother; deceased mother

Most common words with 妣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

妣

deceased mother

先妣

deceased mother

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pijʔ

pjijX

bǐ

deceased mother

*pijʔ-s

pjijH

bì

deceased mother


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6159th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+59A3

Shuowen

“妣，歿母也。从女，比聲。，籀文妣省。”


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