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败

bài

be defeated

Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 贝 represents the sound. Simplified form of 敗.

Components
贝 sound component

贝  Sound component

bèi

  

sea shell

攵 meaning component

攵  Meaning component

pū

  

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Evolution

败 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
败 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
败 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
败 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
败 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

败 (敗) 

bài

be defeated, decline, fail; to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither

Most common words with 败
Freq.
Word
Meaning

失败

to lose

打败

to defeat

败

to defeat

击败

to defeat

腐败

corruption

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 45.1546% of movies

863rd most common character in movies

862nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

敗

Unicode

U+8D25


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