bēi

dam

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

hill

皮 sound component

  Sound component

  

skin

Evolution

陂 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
陂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bēi

dam, embankment; reservoir; pool; pond; bank of a pond; mountain slope; Taiwan pr. [pí]

 

rugged; uneven

Most common words with 陂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

pool

黄陂

Huangpi district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市[Wǔ​hàn​shì], Hubei

黄陂区

Huangpi district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市[Wǔ​hàn​shì], Hubei

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)a[j]

pje

bēi

river bank; dike


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4796th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+9642

Shuowen

“陂,阪也。一曰沱也。从,皮聲。”


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