bèi
a legendary animal with short forelegs which rode a wolf
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 贝 represents the sound. Simplified form of 狽.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 狈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
in a difficult situation | ||
villains collude together (idiom); to work hand in glove with sb (to nefarious ends) | ||
distressed | ||
battered and exhausted |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3090th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+72C8 |
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