biǎn
to put a coffin in a grave
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pr[o]m-s | pjemH | biǎn | put coffin in grave |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6065th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+7A86 |
Shuowen | “窆，葬下棺也。从穴，乏聲。《周禮》曰：‘及窆執斧’。” |
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