bǐ
empty grain or rice husk
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pijʔ | pjijX | bǐ | chaff; petty |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6313th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+79D5 |
Shuowen | “秕,不成粟也。从禾,比聲。” |
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