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杯

bēi

cup

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 不 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

不 sound component

不  Sound component

bù

  

no

Evolution

杯 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
杯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

杯  

bēi

cup, glass; cup; trophy cup; classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup

杯 (桮) 

bēi

variant of 杯[bēi]

Most common words with 杯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

杯

cup

世界杯

World Cup

干杯

to drink a toast

杯子

cup

奖杯

trophy cup

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤə

pwoj

bēi

cup


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 56.9598% of movies

622nd most common character in movies

1396th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+676F


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