bèi

place in today's Henan province

Components
北 sound component

  Sound component

běi

  

north

阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

place

Evolution

邶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bèi

place in today's Henan province; name of a feudal state

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7183rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+90B6

Shuowen

“邶,故商邑,自河內朝歌以北是也。从邑,北聲。”


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