bì
arm
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 辟 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pek-s | pjieH | bì | arm |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.6335% of movies
1697th most common character in movies
1688th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+81C2 |
Shuowen | “臂，手上也。从肉，辟聲。” |
Sources
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