pí
drum carried on horseback
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤe | bej | pí | small hand-drum |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5677th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Unicode | U+9F19 |
Shuowen | “鼙，騎鼓也。从鼓，卑聲。” |
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