bì
handle
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 必 represents the sound. Originally written as 必, a pictograph of a weapon.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pri[t] | pit | bì | shaft, handle (of a weapon) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67F2 |
Shuowen | “柲，櫕也。从木，必聲。” |
Sources
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