bǐng
report to
Original meaning:
grain storage facility
Depicts a granary (㐭) for storing grains (禾) in. 㐭 also represents the sound. Similar in origin to 嗇. Based on the original meaning "grain storage facility". The meaning later shifted to "to endow" and "report to".
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 稟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to give | ||
to report (to one's superior) | ||
to report (to one's superior) | ||
gift | ||
natural disposition |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p.rimʔ (dialect: *p.r- > *pr-) | pimX | bǐng | receive |
*p.rimʔ (dialect: > *p.r- > *pr-) | pimX | bǐng | rations |
*p.rimʔ | limX | lǐn | rations |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2945th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7A1F |
Shuowen | “稟,賜穀也。从,从禾。” |
Sources
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