bēn
run fast
Depicts three feet (止) to indicate hurried movement. Not related to 牛 (cow) in the modern form.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤur | pwon | bēn | run (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.9676% of movies
1859th most common character in movies
1285th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7287 |
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