bì
currency
Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 敝 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]e[t]-s | bjiejH | bì | offering of silk |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.4025% of movies
1820th most common character in movies
1188th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5E63 |
Shuowen | “幣，帛也。从巾，敝聲。” |
Sources
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