bì
to give
Originally a pictograph of an arrow with a large arrowhead. Unrelated to the current meaning "give", which is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 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 |
*pi[t]-s | pjijH | bì | give |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5859th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+7540 |
Shuowen | “畀，相付與之，約在閣上也。从丌，甶聲。” |
Sources
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