biàn
braid
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-pˤe[r]ʔ | benX | biàn | braid (v., n.) (Shuōwén) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.3386% of movies
2869th most common character in movies
3240th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8FAE |
Shuowen | “辮,交也。从糸,辡聲。” |
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