běng

ornament

Evolution

琫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
琫 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
琫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

běng

ornament; gem ornament of scabbard

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤoŋʔ

puwngX

běng

scabbard ornament


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+742B

Shuowen

“琫,佩刀上飾。天子以玉,諸矦以金。从玉,奉聲。”


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