tax

Money  used to raise an army  also provides the pronunciation

Components
贝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

武 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

military

Evolution

赋 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
赋 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

tax; give; endow; army; diffuse; poetic essay; taxation; to bestow on; to endow with

Most common words with 赋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

天赋

gift

赋予

to assign

taxation

赋税

taxation

禀赋

gift

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.6495% of movies

1702nd most common character in movies

1747th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D4B


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