bài

darnels

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

grain

卑 sound component

  Sound component

bēi

  

humble, inferior

Evolution

稗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
稗 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
稗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bài

darnels, weeds, tares small; barnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli); Panicum crus-galli; (literary) insignificant; trivial

() 

bài

polished rice; old variant of [bài]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.[b]ˤre-s

beaH

bài

weed resembling grain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4912th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7A17

Shuowen

“稗,禾別也。从禾,卑聲。琅邪有稗縣。”


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