biān
whip
Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 便 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
biān
whip; string of firecrackers; whip or lash; to flog; to whip; conductor's baton; segmented iron weapon (old); penis (of animal, served as food)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pe[n] | pjien | biān | whip (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.7322% of movies
2633rd most common character in movies
2250th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+97AD |
Shuowen | “鞭，驅也。从革，便聲。，古文鞭。” |
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