biàn
conical cap worn during Zhou dynasty
Two hands 廾 putting the cap 厶 on someone's head
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
biàn
conical cap worn during Zhou dynasty; (old) cap (garment); military officer of low rank (in former times); preceding
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[b]ro[n]-s | bjenH | biàn | cap |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4544th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+5F01 |
Shuowen | “，冕也。周曰，殷曰吁，夏曰收。从皃，象形。，籀文从廾，上象形。弁，或字。” |
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