bì
jade
A stone 石 like amber 珀; 珀 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 碧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
blue | ||
blue eyes | ||
Sprite (soft drink) | ||
dark green | ||
gold and jade in glorious splendor (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*prak | pjaek | bì | light blue |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.9313% of movies
2292nd most common character in movies
2165th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+78A7 |
Shuowen | “碧，石之青美者。从玉、石，白聲。” |
Sources
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