Chinese Character Wiki

碑

bēi

stone tablet

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 卑 represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

石  Meaning component

shí, dàn

  

stone

卑 sound component

卑  Sound component

bēi

  

humble, inferior

Evolution

碑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
碑 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
碑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

碑  

bēi

stone tablet; gravestone; a monument; an upright stone tablet; stele; CL:塊|块[kuài],面[miàn]

Most common words with 碑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

墓碑

gravestone

纪念碑

monument

碑

stele

口碑

public praise

里程碑

milestone

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pre

pje

bēi

stele; upright pole of stone or wood


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.7802% of movies

2571st most common character in movies

2203rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7891

Shuowen

“碑，豎石也。从石，卑聲。”


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