guì
expensive
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 㬰 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kuj-s | kjw+jH | guì | precious; expensive |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 33.7979% of movies
1145th most common character in movies
873rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CB4 |
Shuowen | “,物不賤也。从貝,臾聲。臾,古文蕢。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.525-526
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