bài
be defeated
Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 貝 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-pˤra[t]-s | baejH | bài | suffer defeat |
*pˤra[t]-s | paejH | bài | defeat (v.t.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 45.1546% of movies
863rd most common character in movies
862nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6557 |
Shuowen | “敗,毁也。从攴、貝。敗賊皆从貝,會意。贁,籀文敗,从賏。” |
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