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配

pèi

match

Original meaning: 

mix wine

Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and a remnant of 妃 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "mix wine". The meaning later shifted to "match".

Components
酉 meaning component

酉  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

妃 sound,remnant component

妃  Sound Remnant component

fēi

  

wife

Evolution

配 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
配 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

配  

pèi

match, pair; equal; blend; to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate

Most common words with 配
Freq.
Word
Meaning

配

to join

配合

matching

分配

to distribute

搭配

to pair up

配置

to deploy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰˤ[ə][j]-s

phwojH

pèi

counterpart; be the counterpart of


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 45.4269% of movies

940th most common character in movies

738th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+914D

Shuowen

“配，酒色也。从酉，己聲。”


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