bái
white
Origin unclear. Possibly depicts a thumb or a person's face.
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
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*bˤrak | baek | bái | white |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 96.2198% of movies
195th most common character in movies
286th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+767D |
Shuowen | “白,西方色也。陰用事,物色白。从入合二。二,陰數。,古文白。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.625
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