bǐ
rustic
Phonosemantic compound. 啚 represents the sound and ⻏ represents the meaning. Originally written as 啚.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*prəʔ | pijX | bǐ | border town |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.1714% of movies
2061st most common character in movies
2510th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+9119 |
Shuowen | “啚,嗇也。从囗、。,受也。,古文啚如此。” |
Sources
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