pín
poor
Money 貝 that must be split 分; 分 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]rə[n] | bin | pín | poor |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.4895% of movies
2025th most common character in movies
1359th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CA7 |
Shuowen | “貧，財分少也。从貝，从分，分亦聲。，古文从宀、分。” |
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