fěi

light of crescent moon

Evolution

朏 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
朏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

fěi

light of crescent moon; crescent moon

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰ[ə]jʔ

phj+jX

fěi

new light of the moon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+670F

Shuowen

“朏,月未盛之明。从月、出。《周書》曰:‘丙午朏。’”


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