bēi
sorrow
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*prəj | pij | bēi | sad |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 35.7681% of movies
1110th most common character in movies
1166th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+60B2 |
Shuowen | “悲，痛也。从心，非聲。” |
Sources
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