bì, pí
aid
Clothing 衤 for the poor 卑; 卑 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4230th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+88E8 |
Shuowen | “裨,接益也。从衣,卑聲。” |
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