huì

bribe

To possess  wealth 

Components
貝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

有 meaning component

  Meaning component

yǒu

  

have

Evolution

賄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
賄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

贿 () 

huì

bribe; bribes; riches, wealth; bribery

Most common words with 賄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贿赂

to bribe

受贿

to accept a bribe

行贿

to bribe

贿

bribe

索贿

to exact bribes

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰˤəʔ

xwojX

huì

property, valuables


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.8305% of movies

2265th most common character in movies

2569th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+8CC4

Shuowen

“賄,財也。从貝,有聲。”


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