biān
bat
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 扁 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.3638% of movies
2427th most common character in movies
3829th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+8759 |
Shuowen | “蝙，蝙蝠也。从虫，扁聲。” |
Sources
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