Chinese Character Wiki
賁

bì, bēn

forge ahead

Original meaning: 

adornment

Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 卉 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "adornment". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
犇 sound component

犇  Sound component

bēn

  

run fast

貝 meaning component

貝  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

Evolution

賁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
賁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
賁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

贲 (賁) 

bì

forge ahead; energetic; surname; bright

贲 (賁) 

Bēn

surname Ben

Most common words with 賁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贲

surname Ben

贲门

cardia (anatomy)

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

憤 噴 墳

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤur

pwon

bēn

ardent, brave

*por-s

pjeH

bì

ornate (name of a hexagram)

*[b]ur

bjun

fén

great, big


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4733rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

贲

Unicode

U+8CC1

Shuowen

“賁，飾也。从貝，卉聲。”


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